PSE 7 too buggy?

For the second time, I have tried to make the transition from PSE 4 to PSE 7 and for the second time, I am considering reverting. Is anyone else finding it too buggy to be really useful? I have noticed two main problems so far. The first is performance and may be related to my 3 year old computer. I have an HP Pavilion with and AMD Athlon 64 processor, 1MB of RAM at 986 Mhz. This seems to me to meet the systems requirements but, do I need to upgrade. Usually, PSE 7 will load as quickly as PSE 4 and will allow me to select and edit one or two photos. From there on, the program goes into calender timing mode. Literally, when I try to Save-As an edited photo, it can take 10-25 minutes to complete. Once that occurs, Catalog back-ups are equally slow. What normally takes me 8-10 minutes to do a full backup to a removable hard disc can take hours once the system slows down.
The second bug is that I work in the file folder mode. When I edit and save-as a photo sometimes with a different file name but always to a different folder, it appears to work successfully and, looking at "My Pictures" the edited photo is there. Unfortunately, it is often not in the Catalog. I haven't tried the date-view mode so I don't know if I'd have the same trouble. My method or organizing, that I have used since I began with PSE 4 almost requires I be in file-folder mode.
As an aside, using this forum, is there some way to return to where I was in the forum list once I complete reading a topic? When the topic is on page 2 or later of the list and I finish and hit back, it always returns me to page 1 of the list, not the page I was on when I selected the topic to read.

The extreme performance problems you're experienced aren't due to the specs of your computer -- 1 GB of memory on a 1 GHz processor should be fast enough. You don't say if you're on XP or Vista (Vista does better with more memory), but 1 GB is sufficient. (However, adding another 1 or 2 GB of memory would only cost about $50 and be the more effective upgrade for the money.) Something else is going on.
The second bug is that I work in the file folder mode. When I edit and save-as a photo sometimes with a different file name but always to a different folder, it appears to work successfully and, looking at "My Pictures" the edited photo is there. Unfortunately, it is often not in the Catalog.
You may be encountering one or two known bugs. First, when you do Save As, you often have to hit F5 (refresh) in the Organizer to cause the new thumbnail to appear, even though the photo really is in the catalog. Second, Folder Location view is buggy in both PSE 6 and 7, often showing the wrong contents of folders:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Folder_Location_view
PSE wasn't designed for relying on folders for organizing, so if that's important to you, you'll probably be better with some other tool.

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====================
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Let's try this again....
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