Safari Slow in OS X Leopard - hard drive cranking away

I don't remember when this started, but my Safari 3.1 in OS X Leopard on a 8-core 2.8 Ghz Xeon Mac Pro is really slow at loading Web pages.
Whenever I go to a new Web page, I hear the hard drive cranking away and the page doesn't pop up quickly. The hard drive is quiet, then I click on a new bookmark to bring up a new page, and I hear the cranking of the hard drive as the page loads.
I thought this might have something to do with Spotlight indexing the Web pages as I bring them up, so I unchecked "Web pages" from the Spotlight priority list.
Anyone else noticing this?

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