My Mac Pro is......slow

I hope you can help...
I have a Mac Pro here at work. Pretty but dang, I seem to be waiting on it a LOT. Get the beachball what seems like WAY too many times a day. Seems to be most frequent with moving too or from Photoshop(CS3) or QuarkXpress(7). Sometimes I'm just trying to switch to my mail program. I installed a little App in the top bar that shows my processor load. Don't think I have ever seen either processor go over 60%. The lag I get here reminds me of when my G4 at home hits 100% and I just have to wait. A friend mentioned something about "memory page swap" but I wanted to ask here. Just want to be getting the full speed out of my pretty Mac. Thank you!
Specs here:
Dual-Core Intel Xeon - 2.66 GHz
4MB L2 Cache (per processor)
2 GB Memory (4x512 MB DDR2 FB-DIMM - 667 MHz)
1.33 GHz

Add 4GB of memory at least.
Activity Monitor - System Memory - swap used and page outs
(at least in 10.5.x)
Swap files are in /var/vm
Depending on file sizes, CS3 and Leopard will use any available memory. In Tiger you need to use the VMBuffer plug-in. If you have files that come close to 1GB, a must.
Separate drives for system/apps, scratch, data.
The Mac Pro - see Barefeats - is designed for 4GB of RAM, if not more. 2GB is minimum for just email and web browsing.
Also, consider the performance of your drives. A fast boot drive and for scratch, and use of RAID, help immensely.
When in doubt, clone your system to another drive, and run Disk Warrior plus Disk Utility.

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