Slow CS3 compared with CS2

I'm seeing an overall sluggish performance in inDesign CS3 compared with CS2. I use G5 processors and I have plenty of Ram (8 Gigs on a x2 G5 and (2 Gigs on an iMac) I . Even CS2 running on a G4 PowerBook seems faster. The preview of the images set on Typical makes me think that I have the setting on High Quality, whilst I don't. Images take ages to show up. Seeing the same document open on an Intel machine seems much faster even if has only 2 Gigs of Ram. Is there a problem with G5 Macs and InDesign CS3? Photoshop CS3 works just fine.

Is it like this with any document? There have not been much complaining of CS3 being slow so it is certainly not a general problem. I have only toyed with the tryout, I am stuck in CS1(!) until fall, but didnt notice any slowdowns in screen redraws on a few magazines I converted.
You said in a previous post it is like having high res display on, does that mean that they also display in high res or was it just to compare the sluggishness? Placing overly large images and downsizing in Indesign could cause that I think. See what ppi the image are reported to be, actual and effective.
Are those images on a server or on your local disk? If on a server see if it behaves any better when trying with images placed from you local drive.
Also try an export to .inx and reopen that with hope of getting rid of any corruption.

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