My Illustrator CS4 skips and stutters.

When I'm working in Illustrator, objects stick when I try and move them.  It takes a few seconds but they do eventually move.  It doesn't happen all the time but as my work sessions progresses it gets worse and more consistent.  It also stops my internet music from streaming when this happens.  I'm running cs4 on my macbookpro running 10.5.8 I also use the font program suitcase fusion 2 if that needs to be known. This problem is fairly new and at one point illustrator worked flawlessly. Please help! I am dependent on this program for work and now its bunk!

What have you done since then? Installed something, updated changed workflow?
Try preferences: Anti-alias-option and/or High-Res-EPS-option
Have you perhaps turned on overprint preview?
Of course Suitcase may be the source of problems. Have youtried truning it off? Have you installed the latest version?
Try debug-palette: Cmd+Alt+shift+F12. Then Purge Undos

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