Motion 4 grinding to a halt -- so slow can't even work!! Help, please...

I have Motion 4, been using for years. Just started a project where there are 20 or so items within each section. A few are keyframed to move scale and position and opacity, otherwise the rest of the items just moving in and out with motion behaviors. Some are images, some are video files.
Once I make more than one section as described above, every keystroke or movement, basically anything I do, I get the spinning beach ball for anywhere from 5 - 20 seconds. EVERY TIME I DO ANYTHING. This is making my project take about 3 times longer than it should to design, and I have no idea how I'm going to gauge timings without having to render everything out over and over.
I have set two scratch disks on different external drives through FCP, one has 77GB free and the other has over 200GB free. I have a MacPro desktop 2.66GHz 6GB memory.
I've tried viewing in draft quality, same issue. The other projects I've done in past are not having this issue.
Two questions (and of course open to all suggestions):
1) is there any way besides through FCP to set scratch disks for Motion?
2) is there any way to work in a super draft mode, making things into outlines or lower res preview?
I'm under deadline and this project is not happening as it should! Ack ! Does Motion have a tipping point where it can't handle more than a certain number of items per page?
Thank you!!

I really appreciate everyone's suggestions.  I'll try to go through these as best I can...no, I absolitely did not install any anti-virus software, I know better than that and keep updated on the known threats.  I though maybe something might have been hidden in something else I downloaded, but I don't think that's the case any longer.
The hard drive is only 2 years old, and it passed all the SMART tests I threw at it, plus I have Techtoo Pro and Drive Genius running to alert me of any problems with the disk.
I booted up into my eDrive, and things were running fine, which told me it was probably a problem with the file system on the main drive, so I ran a few tests like volume structures, and as I suspected it failed the tests.  I am running a repair volume structures right now, hopefully it will take care of the problem long enough for me to boot back into the main OS and do what I need before I try a reinstall of Lion.

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