Search a huge spreadsheet takes forever or results in crashing!

Hello friends,
After i parted for more than 6 months from office 2008 for mac, i found myself in the position of reinstalling it (SAD) after working only with iwork 09.
The thing is i got a huge spreadsheet with more than 10 000 entries and working with it in Numbers was like PAIN or near impossible. For instance unhiding 10 000 entries takes like 30 seconds, if i choose to unhide all rows it takes forever or it crashes. If i search ANYTHING using cmd+f it takes 4-5 minutes to give up results. Also searching is near impossible since as soon as you type the first letters of a word, Numbers begins the search (i can kiss 5 minutes goodbye) and i didn't even finish to type the whole word.
This is crazy!
Does anyone have problems with Numbers 09 and long spreadsheets?
Andrei

Well this is a pity then. It seems i can't work on my brand new shiny, and much more powerful Mac because Apple doesn't get along well with BIG stuff (in my case spreadsheets). I wonder what else Apple can't deal with, and other crappy PCs can very well do (and by PCs i also imply Microsoft).
PS: Koenig, your tone is really not necessary because i've searched the Numbers threads many times before i posted, using combinations of keywords like: search, big, huge, spreadsheet, time, forever, crash etc... and little evidence pointed out to my case.
So in a way by your assumptions (that i've first found and THEN read what you people discussed in some threads and that i also didn't "take care") you get a little angry because probably many people ask the same thing over and over again, and i fear your anger is really misguided.
All those people and you included should be angry (if that's the case) on Apple not loyal customers like me that bought iWork 08 AND iWork 09 expecting a product that can cope with almost anything including doing heavy duty spreadsheets.
*Having said that maybe you would advise me to spend 5x more money on Office 2008 _for all the Macs at work_ just to be sure to be able to work with big spreadsheets?!*
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