Oracle 10G performance problems

Hello,
we have a lot of performance problems with oracle 10G. Especially tables scan on DRAW or AEN1 have long response times. It seems that the CBO uses the wrong strategy. The latest merge fix is already installed. Any idea to solve the problem is welcome.
Best regards
Juergen Remmert

We had similar performance issues in our environment, once we upgraded from 9.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.2.
Oracle: 10.2.0.2
SAP: 4.7x110
OS: SOLARIS 9 64bit
The above mentioned notes were very helpful. We had to install an oracle patch as well (found on marketplace)  --  6321245
and make the following oracle parameters changes:
pga_aggregate_target - 144MB (default = 25MB)
*.event="10027 trace name context forever, level 1"
*.event="10028 trace name context forever, level 1"
*.event="10162 trace name context forever, level 1"
*.event="10183 trace name context forever, level 1"
*.event="10191 trace name context forever, level 1"
*.event="10629 trace name context forever, level 32"
*.event="38068 trace name context forever, level 100"
*.event="38043 trace name context forever, level 1"
*.optimizer_index_caching=50
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*._b_tree_bitmap_plans=FALSE
*._index_join_enabled=FALSE
*._optim_peek_user_binds=FALSE
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*._sort_elimination_cost_ratio=10
Remove
*.optimizer_features_enable='9.2.0'
HTH

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