Illustartor CS4 slow document

Hey everyone,
I'm having a problem with illustrator CS4. It's all working fine, but there is one document that's being very, very slow. It's a drawing containing of several layers. When I add a clipping mask, it suddenly is slow. When I remove it, it acts normal again. But I need the clipping mask!
I'm working on a Windows PC.

I have over 4TB of HDD in the machine in question and use one drive just for
capture another for rendering to and yet another for storing the material
and another for anything else etc I also have a separate system drive with
all the applications on it. They are all fast enough to run HD in real time
with no hiccups. I have no problem chucking enormous files about and
rendering from other software. Its only Premier CS4 that crawls. I have a
second boot on another drive with CS3 and that renders very fast in
comparison.

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ADOBE SORT IT OUT.
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