PS CS4 eating memory and not responding

I have PS CS4 (11.0.1) and for the past month and a half, using PS has been excruciating. Whenever I open PS, my memory usage goes through the roof, hanging out consistently in the high 90% range. The program becomes almost unusable whenever I choose the text tool. After choosing the text tool, I get the continual spinning hour glass, the black bar at the top of the screen shows up with (not responding) and if I try to click anywhere the screen goes faded and it's a crap shoot whether or not it comes back or I get the "program is not responding" box. After closing PS, my memory almost instantly drops to it's normal levels of between 30 and 40%.
Like I said, this has only been happening for about a month (maybe less) or so. Is there anyone out there that can help?
Thanks, Dave

First of all, I want to say thanks for all the help so far.
OK, I called my brother-in-law and it turns out that he didn't install just a few fonts, he installed a few font packs, totalling about 4,000 fonts . I've gone through and deleted every one, other than system fonts, and the text tool responds a lot faster, but the memory issue is still plaguing me. Granted it's not nearly as bad as before, but it's still pretty slow. I checked the memory allocated to PS, and I've got 2 gigs total and a little less than 1 gig available to PS. My scratch disks (not really sure what those are) are my D and an external HD. Is there anything else I can check to speed this program up?

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