Slow iPhoto Thumbnails in iDVD

Gang,
Here's the problem. The girlfriend has a large photo library in iPhoto (not extreme!) and running iDVD on her 12" laptop was unbearable slow in scrolling through photos to add to menus. Spinning beach ball between each screen for 10 seconds or more.
Recently she bought a Mac Pro... and the same thing happens!!! Maybe not 10 seconds, maybe we are down to 5 seconds. but it doesn't scroll at all - it just SLOWLY clicks down a page of thumbnails at a time.
I've followed all the suggestions in the Prevent DVD crashes thread. I have rebuilt the iPhoto library. I have not reinstalled iDVD.
I have no trouble on my G5 iMac and I would have more photos though probably not a large as hers.
I would assume that iDVD is not looking at the actual image in iPhoto and making it's own thumbnail, but pulling it from an existing thumbnail index somewhere.
Any ideas where to look to speed this thing up. Especially after she bought the Mac Pro...!!!!!
Thanks
Paul

Paul
Read these links:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75491
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947

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