Retarded reaction after key press

Hello everybody,
after I updated from LR 1.0 to 1.1 I encounter strange retardations after pressing a key/menu bar.
For example:
In library mode clicking "3" LR takes 15 seconds to react and set the rating of the picture to "3". Clicking "x" to reject a picture also takes 15 seconds.
Clicking on the menu bar takes 15 seconds for the system to open a menu.
It is hardly possible to use LR with this flaw.
Clicking on the navigation buttons (left, right, up, down) the system reacts instantaneously.
Before I updated to LR 1.1 using LR 1.0 everything was fine (in this respect).
Has anybody observed this effect too. Does anybody have a solution for this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Thorsten
PS:
Of course I already uninstalled and reinstalled LR, without improvement.
My system is:
Windows XP SP2
Athlon x2 3800
2 GB Ram

Hi Everyone,
I read Thorsten's post with interest and Michael's reply because I am having a terrible time with LR 1.1.
I am on a Mac G5 Dual with 2 gigs of RAM and 2-500 gigs of Hard Drive. My LR 1.1 has slowed to an absolute cold molasses crawl. Nothing works anymore without sitting and waiting forever. The files take forever to load and when they do load "working" they are pixelated so bad they can't be read. The metadata never seems to load.. I could go on and on but I would have to list everything that happens in the workflow.
I have deleted and reloaded my catalogs, I have divided my catalogs so they only hold a small amout of files. One only has about 1700 pictures and most of those are jpegs. I have another catalog that has about 4000 files and about 2/3's of those are RAW.
I have been on the phone with Adobe Tech Support 3 times (they have been good to work with and have tried to solve the problem). We have changed things, made smaller previews, put the view preference on low, divided catalogs even smaller yet.. etc., etc.
I have dumped all my 1:1 previews and then reloaded them all over again. I have worked with Adobe on everything that can be changed, but there isn't really much to change. I am very disappointed because I ran version 1.0 on the same machine without a problem.. it ran fast and great.
I didn't notice this slowdown from the very start of installing 1.1 but it might have started and I just didn't notice. But now it is so slow that working with a folder of just 150 files is almost useless. I have taken screen shots to show that even the navagator picture pixelates to the point of being unreadable. The menus are super slow. The scrolling even takes forever and the power scroll arrows at the end of the filmstrip won't even work with LR sometimes. And then after quitting lightroom it seems my whole computer is sluggish for a while.
My Photoshop CS3 and Bridge work great at normal speed even when loading a file from LR.
Now I just noticed Thorsten's post and Michael's reply about unchecking the auto XMP write because of a bug when the Tech at Adobe Lightroom told me just today to leave it checked as on. If there was a problem with that wouldn't they know ??? How utterly frustrating.. I told the tech today that I only have one catalog with 1700 files and another with 4000 and that I was sure there were people with 10's of thousands and if this was how LR bogged down then something was very wrong. Heck my iPhoto has 3 times as many as LR and works great !!
I just went into preferrences and unchecked the XMP auto write and restarted LR and things seem to work fine and back to normal (fingers crossed).
I asked the tech today why I always have the 3 dots in my filmstrip that never seem to go away and he didn't know. He just told me to choose the "read or save" metadata from/to file in the Metadata pull down menu to load it.. when I did this it took all day for a 100 picture file to load.
COULD THIS be my problem finally. Does anyone know any more on this subject.
Thanks for viewing my question and problem. I hope that is this is the problem then it will help someone else too, this wasa terrible.

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