Illustrator CS4 lags on Intel Mac but not PowerPC

From what I can tell the lag only occurs when selecting an object in a project. Once I select any object there is about a 5 second delay where the beachball will spin until finally the object is selected. Also, about 50% of the time the selected object will jump across the screen after it is selected. It happens in any file, new or old, and with any size file from very complex to new documents with just one line in it. There are zero problems on my old PowerPC G5 tower but any time I use Illustrator on either my old MacBook with a Core 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz or my brand new MacBook Pro i7 2.3 Ghz it happens. I have found that using a selection box eleminates the problem but the fact remains there is a problem that needs to be resolved. It makes Illustrator almost unusable - any help would be VERY appreciated.
Thanks for the time.

So I ended up formatting the hard drive and reinstalling OS X and all CS 4. This fixed the lag problems I had for about a week, then suddenly today I created a new document, threw a few lines in and BAM! The same thing started happening again - every file, new or old is lagging again. SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP!
EDIT: Here's a video of what is happening. Note, after selecting the line you can see the blue endpoints of the line but it takes several seconds for the selection box to appear around the line. The beachball is also not showing up in the screencast.

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