Leopard installed -- G5 Desktop VERY slow and odd behavior

I installed Leopard on both my MacBook Pro and G5 dual 2.7Ghz. Works great on the laptop. Both have also had the combo update to 10.5.4., with permissions repaired before and after installation. The G5 is behaving oddly; very very slow on boot up, opening apps, such as preferences which takes 2-4 minutes simply to open, and responds inconsistently to mouse and clicking. Not sure what to do other than revert to OSX.4.11, a seemingly very stable version. Any ideas?

Thanks. I'll give that a shot, otherwise, I'm going to use SuperDuper to wipe the drive and restore it from a bootable backup that's running 10.4.11 and then try re-installing Leopard + combo. Cheers.

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