Lightroom 15000+ images ; Slow

Computer Specs: iMac 20" Intel Core 2 Duo with 2.16 GHz with 2GB Ram and 250 GB Harddrive.
Problem #1 15000+ image slow ...
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I'm using Lightroom since a month now, initially i downloaded the beta version and moved about 2000+ images (about 80% raw files, rest jpg) and it was working great ...
Now I've just purchased Lightroom 1.0 and moved about about 5 years of my digital pictures about 15000+ pictures. First i imported the first set of 2000+ pictures and it worked great again ...
then I imported 14000+ pictures (mostly jpg, less then 500 were raw) and the response from lightroom changed dramatically, it is slow. I want to assign my keywords to the pictures and tell remove the rejects and come down to 10000+ pictures. But this collection will grow,
My question to you is ...
1) Can ligthroom handle 15000+ pictures, if yes what i'm doing wrong ...
Problem # 2 Backup ... Using Export ...
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The way I'm backup is ... I select all pictures in the library (it was okay when manageing 2000+ pics) ... and export them to my external harddrive as DNG ... this converts my .NEF to .DNG which is perfect, but
this one also convert all my .JPG to .DNG.
Is there a way to convert only my .NEF TO .DNG but backing up my JPG as JPG
Is there another way to backup, i could not find a menu entry to backup on Lightroom.
Thanks in advance
Sajid

I have almost 13,000 images in my Library on a Windows system (Dual Core AMD 64 x2 - 2.2 Ghz - and 2 gb memory). I notice that LR takes much longer to open fully. If I wait for the HD to stop reading then LR responds fairly quickly. When scrolling through a lot of images I find that using minimal cells, instead of expanded, speeds up the thumbnail building issue. All in all I do find that LR gets pretty slow when well loaded with images, but that should improve with future upgrades.
I do still wonder why LR needs to rebuild thumbnails every time it opens. Bridge CS3 takes longer to build thumbnails, but it only has to do it once so it is faster the next time you open that folder.

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