Slow performance with large images working at 300 DPI

I'm working on creating a poster for a film. I have my workspace set up for 24" x 36" movie poster size at 300 DPI. I have an intel i5 2500k processor @ 3.3 Ghz. I have 4 gigs of RAM and I have PS set to use 2/3 that. I have a scratch disk set on a large separate drive. The program runs very slow and takes forever to save or render a resize of any image. I'm wondering if there's a way to decrease the "size" of the images (in otherwords the data so the layers arent ginormous in terms of data) but still be able to work at 300 DPI?

inDesign costs something like two thirds the price of Photoshop, so expensive for a one off job. It's sacrilege to mention it in these forums, but of you have a high end Office version installed, you might have Publisher on your system.  It would do the job easily, and is probably more intuitive to learn than inDesign.  But if your serious about it, inDesign is ten times the program, and the printer won't smile knowingly when you deliver the image file and they ask how it was created.

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