Safari will freezes opening links in new tabs or windows

I've noticed that Safari will briefly freeze when opening a link in either a new tab or a new window or when a page is set to automaticly reload after a set time while there are other tabs or windows opened. It does this on all web sites.
I took a look at everything I could think of, including permissions, used DiskWarrior & Drive Genius to repair,defrag and rebuild directories on my drive, and used Cocktail to clean out all caches nightly. I also have no add-ons installed other than the Flash Player 9 Beta 3 plug-in (but I was having this problem before installing the player). I haven't touched Fontbook (I use Suitcase Fusion). I also know it's not an internet connection speed issue since I have a 15mbps fiber connection coming into my home. I also tested out using Firefox and did not have the problem there.
Anybody have any other ideas?
G4 G.E. Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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