My indesign is very slow in copy and pasting

Hy to all,
i work with indesign CS3 on MAC with OS 10.6.4.
I have some ai-Files in Textlines. If i copy and paste them to other Textframes it is very very slow and the spinning weel is showing.
I know that i don´t have these problems on OS 10.5.8, so maybe it is a problem in my new system.
Did someone could tell me, how i can fix this problem?
Greetings from germany
KAi

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