Logic Express 7.2 painfully slow loading ESX24 and JamPack audio samples

Logic Express 7.2 is painfully slow loading ESX24 and JamPack instrument audio samples. The hard drives very busy as if Logic is searching for the files. Garageband loads the JamPack audio files almost instantly. Don't have this problem with Logic Pro on my G5, only Express on my MacBook Pro.
Have updated to 7.2.1 but no change.
Anybody else experienced this? Any tips appreciated.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Jorge,
You are absolutely right, it's just the first time I load the samples. What's strange is that it's happening with JampPack 4, it took about three minutes to load one of the string intruments, but when I closed that instrument and opened esx the same string intrument was loaded. I don't remeber this taking so long on my G5 though!
Thanks for your help Jorge.
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