Looking for non-specific hardware recommendations

Let's start by saying I am an avid amateur photographer who uses Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 4 on a Windows Laptop with the following specs:
Windows 7 Home Premiium
Intel i7 Q820 @ 1.73GHz
8G ram
750Gb hard drive 7200rpm
ATI Mobility Radeon HD4670
Bamboo pen tablet
Dell SP2009W 20" monitor as primary display - laptop screen as secondary display
While this functions fine for now, the more I learn and use Photoshop, the slower and more annoying my system is becoming. It is not uncommon for saving a single tiff file in PS to take 5 minutes. I am considering building a new computer. I am confident that I'm able to build a computer but the vast number of choices of hardware is where I get confused. Also, I don't know which components are most important to run PS the fastest.
I've read through a bunch of posts of people asking "Is this system any good for Photoshop" or "which video card is better 4xx or 5xx" etc. But that's not really what I need to know. Does anyone have general advice on what's most important to PS? RAM? GHz? Scratch disks?
Thanks in advance for any and all help/suggestions.

If you put a system together yourself around a motherboard you can create a near-monster for 3 grand.
A really potent combination might be a motherboard based on i7-37xx or i7-39xx (which has great core speed), 16GB RAM with room to grow, 4 x OCZ Vector 256GB SSDs in RAID 0 for the system, applications, and working data, plus a spinning HDD for lower-access data (e.g., your photo library), ATI Radeon HD 7850.
Another possibility (which is the path I usually take) is to find high-end just-off-lease workstations (like Dell Precisions) on eBay. Most folks don't realize that a previous generation system with all the highest-end parts can outperform the current generation designs with anything but the highest-end parts, and the price can be quite a bit less.
Just as an example: I've bought from these people before: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-T5500-Dual-2x-Six-Core-6C-Xeon-2-80GHz-X5660-Quadro -4000-8-310-/251205144017?pt=Desktop_PCs&hash=item3a7cfe4dd1
You could ask to downgrade the Quadro 4000 video card to a base model, get your own e.g., ATI 7850, and spend the savings on SSDs.
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