Slow interface

When I click in a layer in the layers panel it takes like a second to select that layer... even worst when I click on the transparency slider on that panel it takes a few seconds to actually select it...
I'm on machine with 12Gb (8gb assigned to photoshop), 500Gb of free space for scratch disks, quad core processor and an nvidia gtx 285. So I don't think it's a machine performance problem... I have al the latest updates. Also I'm on Mac OS 10.6.6
Is anyone experiencing the same problems?
Anone knows how to solve it?
TIA

No third party plugins installed. I use Font explorer pro, but AFAIK it does not install any plugin in photoshop.
No optional plugins AFAIK.
I have resetted the settings and noticed a better performance, still not perfect though... considering I have a powerful machine. The performance in CS4 is much smoother.
One thing I have noticed after resetting is that the performance on the layers pane gets even worst when I drag it to the second monitor where all the tools used to be before I reseted the settings.

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