Leopard much slower than Tiger and buggy

Hi,
I run Leopard on PBG4(1.67MHz) with 1GB of ram and iMAC G5(2.1) with 1.5GB of ram and I am experiencing incredibly poor performance.
Booth machines are slower than usual and I cannot find reasons why. On my PB I am constantly getting spinning beach-ball and interestingly my fans are running all the time. Something that was not the case with Tiger. Importantly: I did not install any new SW. I use only MS Office and iWork/iLife.
When I did a little bit of investigation I found out that Safari is taking up a lot of processing time. Even when is idle it takes up to 40%-50% of CPU time. And that is the case with PB and iMac.
Furthermore I have encountered strange behaviour with PowerPoint and Excell and here is one line from console.log:
5.11.07 13:14:58 [0x0-0x49049].com.microsoft.Excel[591] Mon Nov 5 13:14:58 Jabucek.local Excel[591] <Error>: The function `CGPDFDocumentGetMediaBox' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance. Please use `CGPDFPageGetBoxRect' instead.
Are we having serious problems with Leopard? Was this product premature to be released on the market? I am seriously thinking to downgrade back to Tiger.
Do you have any similar experiences?
Matej

Hi,
I only came to this thread because I was searching for items on a similar Console message:
"/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSDictionary is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance."
As you can see, I'm still running Tiger - and I'm worried that installing Leopard will not make this odd message go away - It and another two with a similar message are generated everytime I start up..

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