Slow Leopard, possible plan of attack...

I have Leopard running on an iMac G5 1.8 GHz PPC with 2 GB of ram. My Canon LiDE 35 scanner and Canon iP6600D printer work fine. But Leopard is much slower on my system than Tiger.
Plan of attack: 1. create a bootable backup of Leopard 10.5.1
2. erase and install Leopard
3. bring over apps, docs, etc from firewire HD during install
4. update to 10.5.1
Sound OK? Feel free to give suggestions to help my slow Leopard OS.

I'm glad it worked out well.
The idea of starting in Safe Mode is that it runs a directory check and eliminates everything but Apple installed startup items, fonts other than System/Library and other items. It often helps to isolate an issue. (But not his time).
The re-install you did was probably best and easiest way to handle it. When you update use the 10.5.1 Combo Update This is a fuller install, as opposed to an incremental "delta" update (the one from software update) so it should overwrite any files may still be damaged or missing.
-mj
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