Office 2008 issue

Hi All,
I recently installed Microsoft Office 2008 in my MacBook, but the applications run pretty slow (only Office), specially PowerPoint. Any suggestions on how to improve the speed of those applications? Getting a new RAM memory perhaps? I installed a 1 GB Ram memory one year ago.
The details of my Mac are:
Machine Model: PowerBook6,5
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.1)
CPU Speed: 1.33 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.25 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Thanks in advance!
lbm2

ibm2: I have Office 2008 running on all the Macs in our house, and it is slow(er) than I think anyone would expect.
The Mac Mini we have runs 1GB of RAM and a Core Duo 1.83 and I see little difference in speed compared to my 2.4Ghz Blackbook w/ 4GB of RAM. My fiancee uses Office 2008 on her MB 2.16 Ghz w/ 2GB of RAM and she complains endlessly about how slow it is.
I posted some time ago on Microsoft's forums about the speed and one of the MVPs said it was because of Leopard, and it runs much faster under Tiger. I don't know if I believe that or not, but if you're curious, here's the link...
http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Word/1541
As you can see, my original issue was w/ MathType symbols (it isn't out yet for '08), and Microsoft doesn't make a descent Math equation editor for the Mac version of Office. Office 2007 has Microsoft Math which is descent enough but doesn't do series. On the other hand, I've been using Pages '08 almost exclusively for the majority of my work and couldn't be happier. It is not a perfect Word replacement, but it does about 80%-90% of what Word can do (sometimes better, or a lot better), but I still haven't broken that tie to Redmond's Office suite yet. ::baby steps::

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