Need to speed things up!

This is my first post so be gentle please.
I have some deadlines for videos coming up soon and the videos are 3.5, 3.0, 2.5, 2.5, 2.0, 2.0, 1.0 hours and 1 at 45 minutes. I need to deliver all of these by June 23rd and I thought that by buying a Dual 1.8 G5 using FCE HD, my saving times would be fast. But, there not. I am currently working on a save in QT 262 format, 45 minutes of video, working from a RAID and saving to the same RAID and this smallest of the videos is only 27% done and has an estimate of 9 hours.
I am new to the G5 and was hoping that the Dual 1.8 with 3.5GB RAM, 160GB and 250GB SATA drives and a HighPoint 2220 SATA RAID (300MB/s) card pushing 3x300GB 16MB cache (300MB/s) Seagate Barracudas in 0 RAID configuration would be just fine. What happened?
I am shooting from a Sony HRC-1 in HD 19:1 and capturing in the 19:1 as a standard DV and NOT HD. This video has no special effects at all. Shot straight from the camera to the timeline to the render to the export as a Quicktime 262 because I lost my MPEG 2 encoder when I went to QT7 and did not see the warnings about the encoder being deleted to make me buy another product that does not have the encoder also.
I actually feel that my eMac exports faster than this G5. Any suggestions? I am sure I have not given enough technical information to fully understand the problem or is this normal speed for my configuration?
How can I make it faster (and please do not say buy another computer)? Would it be better to have another, 2 or 5 SATA RAID drives added?
Thanks! Ken
Dual 1.8 G5 SATA RAID 3.5GB RAM, 2x G4 Dual 867's, G4 867, 12" Powerbook 867, eMac G4 1000,   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   Radius 81/110 Mac Clone Nubus running OS 8.0 used daily

I bought a quad a couple of weeks ago to speed up the process and it's barely faster than the iMac G5 2.1 it was to replace. Renders and Exports run about 25% faster. Upgrading to 3.5HD seemed to make it worse. I don't think the program is optimized for multi-processing, as I've NEVER seen it get above 150% processor usage. Doesn't seem to utilize RAM either, stuffing itself into around 120Mb when it's got 2.5GB to work with. I don't understand why a program (or OS for that matter) would use virtual memory swaps to a hard drive when it's got 20x the amount it's using available. The machine just FLIES through everything else (the Safari loading bug excepted) and I cannot understand why FCE 3.5 is such a dog. It routinely takes 10 times the program length to render 4 cross dissolves in a 3 minute program. Nothing fancy here, just simple edits. I was stunned to have to walk away for half an hour to render 3 minutes of video. Heaven help me if I ever want to ad some flashy effects.
G5 quad   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   2.5GB
G5 quad   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   2.5GB
G5 quad   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   2.5GB

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