Slow Bridge CS3

No matter what I do, Bridge CS3 runs slowly. Selecting multiple items take a almost 4 seconds each one I click on, with the usual result of them all opening in Camera RAW before I am ready.
I have made countless calls to customer support, reset preferences, clear edcaches, been told I shouldn't have so many images in a folder even though this is supposedly a professional application (I currently have 64 Nikon NEF files, about 10 MB each in a folder), been told to uninstall & reinstall Bridge & CS3 (which I just did), reinstall system (ditto), among others.
The only way to make it run a little faster is to create a new folder each time, drop the images into it, and work as quickly as I can before it slows to a crawl.
To add insult to injury, I am now trying to create a sub keyword (a keyword under a keyword) as I have done hundreds of times. I can create on called Connecticut, but if I try to create one called Westport, Connecticut, it fails to be created. Just plain Westport works, however.
And, if I open multiple images in the Camera Raw (4.4.1) window, make adjustment to them, then, with only one selected, click option and cancel (reset), I cannot just reset one images as I could do before. I now get a new window saying "Reset all changes, including changes to non-selected images" No/Yes. Where did this come from?
I am out of ideas.
I am using Bridge 2.1.1.9, on a G5 quad, running OS 10.4.11, 8.5 GB of RAM.
Thanks,
R

Robert
As stated before, delete the cache file and after restart you would have the same folder with Bridge Store (but it should contain 31 visible document files, the "FileSystem_Blobs.MYD" is the largest one and can grow up to 16 GB followed by "FileSystem_Nodes.MYD" with several MB's the rest of the folder is very small, 2 with several 100 KB and the rest with 28, 16, 12 4 and even zero KB in size)
The mysql folder should contain 45 document files each at a small size.
If you can't see the contents you should surely delete it to create a new one with a restart of Bridge.
I'm not sure where the distributed cache (which in my opinion is a preferred setting!) is written to besides in the xmp file (or with DNG in the file itself) but deleting the cache as described does keep all the metadata and ACR settings unchanged.
Also deleting of the ACR cache does not change the earlier changed settings.
It's just a good way to a fresh start :-)

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