Power Mac 1.8 Dual G5 Runs slooooow

We have 2 Power Mac G5's running the same OS 10.4.11 and Adobe creative suite 2. An issue with one is that it opens all Adobe aps real slow. It took 52 seconds to open InDesign but the other Power Mac opened it in 16 seconds. Also, an 84 MB file in Photoshop took 1 minute, 38 seconds to open but the other Power Mac opened it in 7 seconds! These computers are running identical software.
Solutions I tried:
• I dumped all the .plist files in Adobe creative suite. No improvement.
• I dumped the com.adobe.mediabrowser.plist file and placed it under no access, as adobe suggested. No improvement.
• I disabled 'version cue'. No improvement
• I used tech tool deluxe to scan hardware. No problems found.
• I booted from the OSX 10.4 CD and repaired permissions. It found problems and they were repaired. But, still, no improvement.
• I, again, repaired permissions after restarting the computer. No improvement.
• I reset PRAM. Still runs slow.
• I checked the CPU and Activity monitor. It shows 1.68 GB memory free, so it's not an available memory problem.
This computer is basically disabled since it takes so long to perform an operation. Is this a problem with Adobe or am I missing something, here? Thanks!

Thanks for your reply. I reinstalled CS2 and I seen no improvement. But, I narrowed it down to a system corruption and reinstalled Mac OSX 10.4.11. Afterwards, I had to do a clean reinstall of CS2 since it lost some Photoshop preference files somewhere in the transition of the archive and install. But, all is well. Applications are opening in a snap.

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