Large mp3 collection painfully slow to open in Mus...

I know my mp3 collection is relatively large (full 16gb class 6 micro sd card) so I expect a bit of lag but im finding access to my mp3's on my E72 frustratingly slow. For example opening my list of Artists isn't so bad but accessing an individual artists list of albums and then opening one of those albums to see the tracks is taking 10-15 seconds each at each step. This also applies when going back out from the list of tracks to the list of albums. Im happy with the music player in general but this one problem is driving me crazy. The only way I can get access music at an acceptable rate is by creating loads of playlists of songs I listen to most regularly but obviously this defeats the point a bit. Does anyone have any suggestions to improve performance in this respect?

This too enfuriates me... amongst other slow response times from the phone in general.
Sometimes it lags on unlocking the phone, answering calls, opening messages can take up to 10-15 seconds... it is absolutely ridiculous.
I have also have a 16Gb card with 7Gb of music. I have two email accounts synchronising maybe once an hour. I have a feeling that this phone just isn't built well enough to handle what it claims it should be able to do.

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http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/set-default-printer-print-center.html
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