Photoshop CS4 Liquify tool issue...

I have recently upgraded from CS3 to CS4 and now find that the liquify tool does not work in "real time". On CS3 I had no problems. Now when I try to perform an action, I click the mouse and get the beachball for a few seconds then the results. As you can imagine, this is extremely frustrating. I am running it on my 24" iMac, 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo with the maximum 3 GB ram.
Any advice will be helpful.
Thanks!

*My* first post was #11 ;)
Scratch disk: Internal HDD only. Then about 10Gb free. (Too little, I know)
Memory: 100% (3072Mb out of the 5.5Gb in the machine). Tried setting "maximum ideal" (71%: 2211Mb); no difference.
But the point is, if I connect a FW external, PSCS does *not* slow down, but does use (allocate) 10Gb on that disk when liquifying. (I'd notice a slow down if it actually wrote 10Gb over FW800, ,so I don't think it uses any; light on the disk also shows no activity.)
Cache and temp were cleaned before. (OnyX).
FW External is a 500Gb, two partition, one of 160Gb (16Gb available), one of 305Gb (167Gb available).
The USB drive was from work, so not here anymore, but IIRC it's also 500 Gb, 1/2 to 2/3 filled.
On a side note (maybe totally unrelated): Why is PS using 3Gb of virtual memory, when there's still 3Gb available? (PS starts using VM when there's still *a lot* of free memory. (I know the difference between "free" and "inactive")
(This is for testing: with approx. 10 files open, 190Mb each )
http://img.skitch.com/20090113-fwf8g3hrwud5rnpp1dwrym3j2b.jpg

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