Photoshop CS5 & Lightroom running slower than expected...

Hi All,
Hope someone can help me out here. I have a 2.66 Quad Core MacPro (2009) with 8gb RAM & I find Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom don't run as quickly as I would expect.
For instance a lot of times when applying actions in Photoshop I will get the blue "applying filter" bar which will sit for quite some time.
I have IStat widget installed so tonight as Photoshop really slowed down I went to the widget to take a look and this was what was happening: (not sure if this is useful or not?)
CPU was 97% idle
Memory was Wired-643mb / Active-4.91gb / InActive-2.42gb / Free-11mb
Processors was Adobe Photoshop between 6.8% & 23.6%
Any idea what would cause the slow down and if there is anything I can do to speed things up?
Appreciate it.
Andrew

There are a number of guides to setting up Mac Pro.
http://macperformanceguide.com/
Read, test, and follow this guide using your own files and such:
http://homepage.mac.com/boots911/.Public/PhotoshopAccelerationBasics2.4W.pdf
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11661836&#11661836
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404440.html
10.6.4 + CS5 + Graphics
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2462882&tstart=0
Double your memory probably if not more.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory#1066-memory

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