InDesign CS3 sluggish with 10.6.2 update

InDesign and other CS3 apps have become sluggish since updating to SL 10.6.2 on my Intel iMac 2.16. All worked fine in 10.6.1. Now performing basic tasks like opening a new file, new frames and pasting text cause the beach ball to spin 3-8 seconds. Apple tech support says I need to upgrade to CS4, yet why did CS3 work fine in 10.6.1 which also is not supported by Adobe for CS3? Anyone else experiencing this?

Hi,
I would ask that question here http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1339
This is the iChat Forums part of Snow Leopard and the Forum I have pointed you to is "Using Snow Leopard"
9:57 PM Thursday; January 21, 2010
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