Running slow, what can we do?

Hi and thanks in advance for your help!
Please read specifications below. My iMacG5 (not intel) is running slow, particularly during start-up, which can take up to 4min. Internet is also slow. I have both Techtool pro and disk warrior (if they would help). I also have a ext HD if it would help to release things from HD. Thanks!
- i have no login items
- dashboard: weather, calculator, clock, calendar
- Internet: DSL
- Memory: 2Gb RAM
- Vram: 128Mb
- Processor: 2GHz
- OS: 10.5.6
- HD: Used: 98Gb Available: 134Gb
- Not using idisk (noted, slower if i do)

Rod, Miriam, thanks.
I tend to believe that Disk warrior or Techtool pro would not fix the problem, simply because I have both of them and had used them every now and then and have not seen a significant improvement.
By the way, why disk warrior and not the performance tool on tech too?
So the software to clean cache suggested by Miriam and especially the hogging the CPU (i don't understand what that means) sounds like something to try.
Rod, I connect via ethernet using a comcast modem.
So I will run disk warrior first, then run the application suggested by miriam, then will address the hogging the cpu issue and go frm there...
Miriam, I have a full back up on an ext HD.
In the meantime, here is the printout from the activity monitor window under the tab "process name". If you tell me what to look for I will check...
203 Activity Monitor albertoambard 21.0 4 15.51 MB 844.14 MB PowerPC
94 AirPort Base Station Agent albertoambard 0.0 1 2.81 MB 779.03 MB PowerPC
191 AppleSpell.service albertoambard 0.0 1 3.88 MB 602.77 MB PowerPC
105 ATSServer albertoambard 0.0 2 3.54 MB 634.44 MB PowerPC
104 Dock albertoambard 0.0 3 14.37 MB 786.68 MB PowerPC
109 Finder albertoambard 0.0 7 14.17 MB 820.05 MB PowerPC
116 HP Communications albertoambard 0.1 4 4.09 MB 773.96 MB PowerPC
127 iChatAgent albertoambard 0.0 2 4.01 MB 727.94 MB PowerPC
122 Image Capture Extension albertoambard 0.0 2 3.61 MB 747.53 MB PowerPC
119 iTunes Helper albertoambard 0.0 2 2.22 MB 721.01 MB PowerPC
91 launchd albertoambard 0.0 3 548.00 KB 585.72 MB PowerPC
24 loginwindow albertoambard 0.0 3 4.74 MB 754.41 MB PowerPC
125 Mail albertoambard 0.0 10 48.78 MB 852.16 MB PowerPC
179 mdworker albertoambard 0.0 4 6.94 MB 604.50 MB PowerPC
100 pboard albertoambard 0.0 1 580.00 KB 586.60 MB PowerPC
128 Safari albertoambard 0.0 7 88.47 MB 895.12 MB PowerPC
98 Spotlight albertoambard 0.0 1 3.90 MB 747.88 MB PowerPC
108 SystemUIServer albertoambard 0.0 9 12.06 MB 798.39 MB PowerPC
112 TWAINBridge albertoambard 0.0 3 5.48 MB 754.66 MB PowerPC
99 UserEventAgent albertoambard 0.0 2 2.05 MB 588.96 MB PowerPC
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