I love lightroom but am finding the adjustment brush slow to respond to brush strokes

My cpu works fine with huge photoshop files - why is lightroom so slow to draw adjustment strokes or erase the mask?

i experience the same behavior regardless of LR version (1.x, 2.x and now 3.x) from time to time. the file size - 10MP or 21MP DNG files does not seem to matter. the behavior seems to occur random since most of the time the brush works fine. often i experience it in fullscreen mode. i also had the idea that my 8GB DDR2 RAM machine may be responsible or something within LR that cannot handle an excess of 4GB RAM. it often helps to restart LR to get rid of the jerky brush (i guess purging the cache as in olden days with PS and large files). another idea is that my switching between LR fullscreen mode and ie the desktop or another running program (winamp, outlook etc) may cause the glitch for some reason as i have seen similar behavior in video games which shut down after several trips to the desktop. now as i mentioned i have no exact idea why this behavior is caused i am only stating my experience with LR. before this post i did not even regard this behavior as exceptional and just put it off as being "typical LR" since i have had it for so long.
btw in the time i had LR (since 1.x beta version came out) my hardware configuration changed several times always improving the computational power of the machine but this behavior always remain. my catalogue in 2.6 which handles my EOS 400D files (10MP DNG) has about 60.000 images and my catalogue in LR 3.b2 which handles my EOS 5D MKII files (21MP DNG) has 2.000 images. so i would not blame it on catalogue size. the HDD the images and catalogues are on is a Samsung HD154UI 650GB SATA 2 drive with 7.200 rpm and 32MB cache (in case that should matter).
cheers
viktor
ps: although i have 8GB RAM LR has never used more than 2GB of it - also the system (vista 64bit ultimate) never used more than 4.8GB RAM regardless of filesize and application i run. there is always more than 50% RAM idle and not being used - what is that about? all 8GB and all 4 RAM modules are being recognized fine.

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