Moving notes in Notation is reeeeaaally slow...

Before I trash and reinstall GB 09, I would like to find out if anyone else has this issue.
I write a lot in Score view. If I mess up on a note and try to move it, it takes several seconds for GB to do it. It's frustrating since a lot of time is spent re-re-correcting notes or waiting for the note to move. Since it happens regardless of what software instrument I use (even Grand Piano), I do think it's something with GB itself.
The interesting thing is usually when this happens, my MacBook Pro is running a "kernel_task" at the same time and they both chunk up CPU and memory. Unfortunately, it happens a LOT.
Any ideas?

I was experiencing the same exact problem using a 2.0Ghz G5 iMac and it was driving me nuts. I loaded a couple of my songs onto a USB stick and went to Best Buy and the Apple store and loaded my songs into GB on their display iMacs. Presto! I was able to edit midi notes with absolutely no lag time on the iMacs in both stores. So... I replaced my 3-year old G5 iMac with a 24-inch 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac and the problem disappeared. Not the most cost effective solution, but the lag time on my old iMac was horribly slow and made it almost impossible to be productive, especially when you are in the moment of a creative spark.
You might want to try the same thing I did and load one of your songs into a demo Mac in a store and see if the problem still exists.

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    And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
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