Help viewer is sooo slooowwww

why is help viewer so painfully slow? if I search for an item in help viewer I can almost go out to dinner across town before I get any results served. It also starts up really slow. It's worse from some apps than others, but it's never snappy. this is really annoying because I'm now using an application that doesn't have a very comprehensive user guide and I need to go to the help file to get a good deal of information.

If you are using Airport in your network, or to stream music to your stereo, try turning off Airport, and then see how the Help Viewer works...
Mine hangs for some reason (I believe) because it thinks it's going to get an update from the Airport which it sees as 'on'. When I need Help, I turn the Airport off, and Help works great.
Bob

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