My Mac is killing me : (

Hello,
I've been having a problem with my FTP upload speeds as they've been gradually dropping on my Mac Pro. I used to get 400 to 500+kb on my uploads, which was great, but now the speeds have dropped down to a steady 50kb, which doesn't work at all. When I start an upload, it usually starts high (500kb or so) and quickly drops down to 50-60kb and stays there. Everything else in my internet connection works great—fast web-surfing, fast downloads, stable connection, etc. (it's a 6Mbps+ connection)
I had a tech-guy come out from my ISP, and he hooked up his PC directly to the microwave dish I'm using to connect to the ISP (bypassing my Airport router), and he was getting high speeds (500-700kb) when he uploaded a file to my FTP—the kind of speeds I used to get. This morning I hooked up the family iMac directly, and was getting the same high speeds as the PC when I uploaded. Then I hooked up my Mac Pro directly and was getting 20-50kb, which makes it pretty obvious that it's my Mac Pro that's the problem.
So, my question, is there some setting that I'm missing that is causing my system to slow to a crawl when I upload a file to my FTP? I'm using Leopard on a new 3.2GHz dual quad-core Mac Pro, and the iMac is running Panther. Is there some issue with Leopard that causes this slow down that can be changed with a hidden setting? I depend on fast uploads of large files for my business, and this slowness is just killing me. This is driving me crazy because I know the speed is there, but there's something blocking me from getting to it.
Please help. Thank you.
hdesign

Update to my question: I just installed the osx update (10.5.4) and that seems to have fixed it, yahoo!
Thanks,
hdesign

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