How do I improve/increase Illustrator's resources?

Instead of spending the next 4 hours digging thru page after page of typically irrelevant Google searches hoping to stumble on to what I'm actually looking for, I'm just going to ask...please forgive my audacity here :-)
The problem I'm having is that I have a vector project going in Illustrator CS5 that is getting rather...errr...sizable. The project is setup for a 30 x 40 large print with -LOTS- of layers, an ungodly number of paths and shapes, lots and lots of color variations & gradiants and lots and lots and lots of gausian blurs. For those curious, I'm doing a HIGHLY detailed vector of Tutankhamun's Death Mask (again this is going to be for a poster-sized print, so I'm adding an insane amount of detail). Basically Illustrator has gotten to the point that it will open the file...but that's about it. If I even try to just move it on the screen, it blanks out and goes to outline mode and I can't get it back into preview mode....and there's still A LOT more detail I wish to add. Further, at some point I'm gonna want to export all of this to a PNG file for some finishing touches in Photoshop for the final print...and I've already had problems trying to export a preview of this file for my former graphics professor.
I've been keeping an eye on the Performance tab in Windows Task Manager and it doesn't look like it's really hitting the CPU(s) (quad core i5) THAT much and the paging file is barely being affected, so I'm guessing it's likely a RAM issue. My system does have 16 gigs on it with XP64 as the OS, along with a 4 gig vid card, but I don't know if Illustrator/CS5 is really taking advantage of all that. Likewise, I don't really have anything other than my virus scanner and my color calibration profile running in the background...not even a desktop image or screen saver (I don't care for "bells and whistles" anyways). I've been back and forth thru Illustrator's menus and about the only thing I'm really seeing is scratch disks (and I do have 2 set).
So to cut to the chase here, is there ANYTHING else I can tweak out either in Illustrator or Windows to free up some resources? I know I could rasterize some of the layers, but that tends to negate the usefulness of doing this in vectors (that whole scalability thing).
Any help here would be most appreciated!

Well, point blank, upgrades are just NOT going to happen right now. The wife and I are in the process of buying a new house and moving so basically every last penny is going in the bank for the new house....can't even afford the dollar menu at McD's at the moment. Won't have any cash for "toys" for at least a year. That aside, while I suspect that sooner or later I will have to go with Windows 7....I really have no desire too. I -hate- having to upgrade OS's (IMHO MS hasn't put out a decent OS since DOS 6.0)...and with my wife being an MS programer and having to listen to her b-tch about Windows 8...nope...ain't going there. I may just wait for Windows 9 instead.
Now all that aside, I did find out yesterday that my system was over-heating again (one of the mounting pins on the CPU fan apparently broke off) so I'm hoping that was part of the problem....still sorting things out on that front so I should know sometime this afternoon.
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