One big library or multiple small ones?

I have around 25000 images in my A3 library. I'd say about 50% of them are raw. They are referenced on an external 1TB MyBook studio connected by FW800. Aperture is dying. If I so much as scroll one line of photos it just hangs for ages and is completely unusable. I know there is a huge thread on this, but that mainly seems to be people upgrading and having painfully slow switch overs, whereas I am there and now crawling.
Would it be better to split them into multiple libraries? It would be about 5 and they would range from having 1000 images to 10000. I know its easy to do but I don't want to do it if its not really going to do anything.
The other thing I saw when googling was that FW drives can actually slow down Aperture. I have the MyBook connected by USB and it seems to be a good bit snappier. However the MyBook isn't just for photos and the whole reason I have it is for FW800 speeds, so leaving it as USB is a non runner. I may be able to put the photos on a different USB drive, but if I put them on the iMac's internal drive, would I see the same improvement? That is a mammoth task of moving 142GB of photos, which I will do if I have to, but only if it is definitely going to work, as it requires moving all personal movies music and other images that aren't photographs totaling 50GB off of the internal onto the MyBook, so thats almost 200GB of data to be moved, so its got to 100% work if I'm going to do that!
Thanks for any help.
Regards

Nope, I used the trial but didn't like the way it handle versions. I just couldn't get my head around it. So I went with Lightroom (I know, I know!) and found that fine in terms of speed, nothing as slow as Aperture is now, but nothing incredibly fast, average I'd say.
I have 4GB in my iMac and to upgrade that is €200 for one 4GB stick to its maximum of 6GB. A lot of money for a it more ram. I have the 256 Graphics in the iMac, so thats pretty much the bottom of the line, which can't be upgraded... If finances allowed I'd get a Mac Pro, but they just don't, and won't for a very long time!
Regards

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