Indesign CS4 - now very slow

On one identity (mac), our indesign is super slow.  Pinwheel displays every time we try to move an object or type character, etc.  Its seems to be less of a problem on a different identity on the same mac. 
We tried everything we know to troubleshoot this issue.
Please help.

I'm having the same problem with Dreamweaver CS4.  For the first couple months, no problems.  Now I can't get anything done.  Apparently, this is a widespread problem because I see many similar complaints in other forums.  Just FYI, I'm running a Mac Pro with 10GB of RAM and no anti-virus.  I've tried a couple supposed fixes, such as deleting the CS4 preferences file, but it has no effect.  Everytime I click in the properties window to change a table cell size for example, I have to wait about five seconds to enter a value.  This is unacceptable and if I can't find a solution soon, I'm deleting Dreamweaver and going with another designer.

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