Lightroom 2.5 hopeless on Snow Leopard

I have Lightroom 2.5 (all current updates) which freezes on Snow Leopard 10.6.2 routinely.  This is on a Mac Pro 2x2.26 Quad with 16 GB ram.  On my Macbook Pro 15  Laptop,  Lightroom 2.5 works just fine under Snow Leopard.
I have trashed preferences and optimized the catalog to no avail.
What gives???  Any ideas??
Thanks.

Thanks to all for the suggestions.
I used all of them and now LR2.5 is much better.
I think I will continue to remove items that are running on my system but LR is much better and more stable already.  I think 90% of the issues are resolved.
Thanks for your help!

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