Shes slow! Tiger or leopard and whats acl?

HI sorry guys but im not very techy so i dont know if ill explain myself properly here but here are my powerbooks details first anyway.
Shes about 3 years old.
Model Name: PowerBook G4 15"
Model Identifier: PowerBook5,6
Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (1.5)
Processor Speed: 1.67 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 1
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.9.1f3
System Memory
Free: fluctuates between 85 and 95 MB
Wired: circ 96MB
Active: circ 256MB
Inactive: Circ 68MB
Used: Circ 421MB
Supposedly overall ive 20 GB free.
Dont know if ye need all that but anyway my problems are as follows.
Everything from programs opening to scrolling down or even highlighting a menu is painfully slow.Im seeing the beach ball constantly.
I cant open anything while burning a disc.
I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard recently hoping it would help milder versions of these problems but its just become worse. Should i just go back to Tiger?
Ive run Disk Utility and usually it comes up with a few things that it fixes but today it came up with a list a mile long filled with lines of
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/da.lproj/Library/Audio".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ko.lproj/Library/Fonts".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/zh_TW.lproj/Public".
ACL found but not expected on "Applications/Utilities".
ACL found but not expected on "Applications".
for example. Someone said i could have a virus! Is that possible on a mac?!
Any advice would be great!
Thanks guys.
Gemma.

Hi, Gemma. You can ignore all the ACL messages, according to this Apple article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US
It has nothing to do with a virus.
Your computer (which is Aluminum, not Titanium) has the bare minimum RAM for Leopard, and that's hard on performance. If you had performance issues while you were still running Tiger, upgrading to Leopard (which requires twice as much RAM) was not the way to resolve them.
Have a look at these two FAQ articles and try the tips provided in them:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html
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