MacBook PRO very slow Tiger performance

dear all,
I have seen this topic many times but unfortunetly none of the tips mentioned has solved my issues.
Basically I am running OS X Tiger on a Mac Book PRO with 1G of RAM.
CPU wise, no problem, as far as I can see the usage is 30% CPU on average.
RAM wise, about 70% of the RAM is in use.
Now, when I use usual OS X application, the whole systems becomes very slow, for example I have a few (2 or 3) text files open with SubEthaEdit, one terminal window open with just a SSH connection to another machine, and then the regular apps like itunes, Mail, Safari, Address Book, Calendar, Transmit and AdiumX running as well as a few widgets like Clock, Calculator and the Stock Market quotes.
Now, for example when I put my mouse on the Dock, it fails to respond immediately, taking a few seconds to actually display the app name.
More over, if for example a Terminal window is down in the task bar and I click on, it sometime takes 10 seconds to come up.
Same with Adium, I click on one of my contacts, it takes 10 / 20 secs to display the chat window, and if I am lucky I can start typing in it.
Generally, just after a boot, the system is fine, but as soon as I start a few applications, the systems becomes very slow, even sometimes fails to respond.
One particularity is that I work with a Japanese username under a English OS X, as far as I know, this shouldn't be a problem.
Other thing is that I enabled the OS X firewall, but I am still experiencing the same issue when not connected to any network.
I hope those are enough informations concerning my issue, one more detail is that I did disable startup items and check if no extra deamon was running on the system (I did Repair my disk permission as well)
If anyone has an idea on where to check next and what could cause this slowdown issues, that would be great.
Thanks in Advance!
Alexis
MBP 2Gz 15"   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

20 GB of swap? something is definitely wrong. I run more applications than you, which are more memory-intensive, and my swap never goes above 512 MB. Granted, I have 1.5 GB of RAM, but still...
Putting swap on a different partition of the same disk won't help at all. The bottleneck is still disk I/O, plus now the heads of the hard disk must seek farther to go between swap and reading/writing your actual data.
I would open your applications one by one, from a fresh boot, and see which one eats up all the memory. 20 GB is an obscene amount, and points to a problem.
Edit: I checked again. Menumeters says I'm using 256 MB of total swap space right now, but in Activity Monitor my VM size is listed as 5.46 GB. I'm assuming that's what you're looking at in Activity Monitor. Still, 20 GB of VM size seems obscene to me.

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        o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
        OVSHelper: Version: 1.1 Support
        Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.4.4.2 Support
        AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.07 - SDK 10.6 Support
        FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support
        DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 2.2 Support
        Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20125.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
        Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update
        iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8
        googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
        QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.1
        AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.07 - SDK 10.6 Support
        SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.2 - SDK 10.6 Support
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        DivXHTML5
    Audio Plug-ins: ?
        iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.1 - SDK 10.7
    iTunes Plug-ins: ?
        Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.3 - SDK 10.7
    User Internet Plug-ins ?
        OctoshapeWeb: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.8 Support
        Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 Support
    3rd Party Preference Panes: ?
        DivX  Support
        Flash Player  Support
        Flip4Mac WMV  Support
        Java  Support
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        Time Machine not configured!
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        94 MB    mds
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        53 MB    WindowServer
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        1.19 GB    Active RAM
        508 MB    Inactive RAM
        975 MB    Wired RAM
        268 MB    Page-ins
        0 B    Page-outs

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    Report generated 17 November 2014 22:20:16 GMT
    Hardware Information: ℹ️
      MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009) (Verified)
      MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro5,5
      1 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
      2 GB RAM
      BANK 0/DIMM0
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      BANK 1/DIMM0
      1 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
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      Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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      NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
      Color LCD 1280 x 800
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      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) - Uptime: 212 days 22:8:28
    Disk Information: ℹ️
      ST9160314ASG disk0 : (149.05 GB)
      S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
      - (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
      Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /  [Startup]: 159.70 GB (77.07 GB free)
      HL-DT-ST DVDRW  GS23N disk1 : (6.93 GB)
      S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
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      Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
      Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
      Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
      Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
      Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
      Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
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      /Applications/Business Everywhere.app
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      [not loaded] com.Huawei.driver.HuaweiDataCardDriver (4.0.3) Support
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      [not loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ZTEUSBCDCACMData (1.1.2) Support
      [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionGTEdge (1.0.5) Support
      [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionMM (1.0.4) Support
      [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionMSD (1.0.0) Support
      [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionQC (1.1.16) Support
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      AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.04 - SDK 10.6 Support
      FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.223 - SDK 10.6 Support
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      Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.223 - SDK 10.6 Support
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      442 MB Inactive RAM
      534 MB Wired RAM
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      [not loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ZTEUSBCDCACMData (1.1.2) Support
      [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionGTEdge (1.0.5) Support
      [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionMM (1.0.4) Support
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      [running] com.trusteer.rooks.rooksd.plist Support
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      Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.2.1.11  Support
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      Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.223 - SDK 10.6 Support
      QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.6.6
      iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
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      AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.04 - SDK 10.6 Support
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    3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
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      Flip4Mac WMV  Support
      Rapport  Support
    Time Machine: ℹ️
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          6% rapportd
          4% WindowServer
          3% WebProcess
          2% PluginProcess
          0% SystemUIServer
    Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
      365 MB WebProcess
      245 MB rapportd
      112 MB Safari
      69 MB WindowServer
      41 MB PluginProcess
    Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
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      888 MB Active RAM
      442 MB Inactive RAM
      534 MB Wired RAM
      97.51 GB Page-ins
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