IMovie & iDVD running much slower on new Mac Mini Duo

Please help with some feedback. From what I have have learned to this point of my research everything has pointed in the direction that my upgrade from my previous Mac (a 1.5 ghz G4 Powerbook) to the newest Mac Mini Core Duo (w/ upgraded 1GB of memory) would be a large improvement in overall performance.
I noticed the difference almost instantly with the new Mini.
However, going into some of the apps that I really need this box for, namely iMovie and iDVD I am noticing that the perfomance is just around half as fast as my old 1.5 G4 Powerbook.
Has anyone out there seen this or know why this is happening? I am under the impression from benchmarks that this new machine should be a great deal faster at rendering, etc.
Mac Min Core Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

In other things, it seems much MUCH improved.
A Mac pal of mine mentioned that perhaps they loaded
the PPC compiled version on it and its being
interpolated through Rosetta.
Would that be possible?
That's exactly what I thought when I read your post, but I can't see how that could have happened because the installer would detect the processor and install the right version.
That doesn't mean you can't run the installer again and make sure the right version is installed, and then check it out to see if that resolved it.

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