My iBook is soooooooo slow -- can you please help?

I have an iBook G4 that I purchased about 2 years ago. The only software I have installed on it is the Microsoft Office stuff (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and Photoshop Elements. I mainly use my laptop for photos (just uploading them from my camera to iPhoto) and surfing the internet. I have some word, excel, and other miscellanous files stored it, but nothing that I think would use up significant memory to slow it down. Anyhow, my computer is extremely slooooooow. I transferred a lot of my photos to an external hard drive, thinking this make help speed it up, but it didn't make it any faster. The photos are only 3MB or less each. Sometimes I will upload photos and then my computer will freeze (the little pinwheel thing just keeps spinning and spinning forever). What can I do to make it function faster? Please help -- I'm so annoyed with this laptop!

Hi Gritz,
Have you run the maintainance scripts that are part of the system? MacJanitor (freeware) will run them for you.
The following article was written for Panther but applies to Tiger as well.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/21/maintenance.html
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