Latentcy Issues - Illustrator CS4 only

Just installed Creative Suite 4 Design Premium. Photoshop and InDesign are working fine. Illustrator is operating correctly. The program freezes for 20-40 seconds with my every move. Change the font, wait 20-40 seconds for the change to process. Move an element, wait. Change a color, wait. Save the file, wait.
Operating Windows XP with Service Pack 3 on a Pentium dual core 3.4 GHz drive with 2GB Ram--well above the requirements. The requirements didn't say I needed it, but I just installed a GeForce 8400GS graphics card, hoping that would fix the problem. It didn't.  Geek Squad didn't know what the problem was. Neither did Illustrator technical support--even though we had a lovely chat for 1.75 hours. Desperate for help--have paying clients waiting for work!

I would say try a new user account first, that is create one and log in as that user and see if you still have the problem.
I would say it might be a font or font cache issue.
But I also want to point out something that you might not like, 2GB of RAM might in your mind be well above the recommend requirement but 1 GB is the recommended amount there is also the OS and other programs like browsers etc, which use up RAM as well and then the scratch disk space.
So it might look to you like you have plenty of memory and you system is flying I don't happen to agree. Why don't you investigate this issue further before making a final decision.

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