Lightroom 3 Slowing Waaay Down?

Howdy!
I am an Apple Aperture user and thinking about switching to Lightroom. I downloaded the trail version and have 15 days left before I have to decide weather to buy it or not. So far all was going really great and I was convinced I needed it, until this evening when I started editing more images from a recent photoshoot. For some reason Lightroom has slowed waaaay down. I haven't installed anything new on my Mac, everything was working great previously so I am not sure what to even try and troubleshoot. My images are from a Canon 40D (or XTi) each about 10gig and all are RAW.
So far I have only imported 2116 images and if I convert my currrent Aperture library, it as 40k images I would want to move over. Of the images I have imported I have only 235 in this current folder, about 60 of those I have edited on. Some I have done some pretty extensive editing clearing up skin using a combination of the skin smoother and heal tools. A few have some artistic work on them and only a couple have I sent to an external editor to do manipulation. I have added one plugin to Lightroom LRB timelapse, and would like to add more for my Photoshelter account and more editing options.
My MacBook is running Lion, 10.7.1, has dual core 2.4 processors, 4 gigs of Ram and a 500 terribyte 7200rpm drive. I use an external 22 inch Acer monitor.
What should I try to recover the performance of Lightroom 3?

David
Can you just confirm something? You say each image is 10Gig do you mean 10Mb? You asls say you have a 500 Terrabite Hard Drive? Surely you mean 500Gb??
Check disk free disk space, you may find things are slowing because you are running out of virtual RAM (which is basically hard disk space)
I would not consider copying over all your photos again into LR. I too have Aperture and moved over to LR about 18 months ago. As a Manchester Photographer I simply find the support in the photography industry superior and most professional photographers have opted for Lightroom, although I do use Aperture on occasion for certain projects.
Lightrooms catalogues you images and leaves the originals in their orignal location
Regards
Darren

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