Slow transfer speeds between two macs

The general setup: an iMac Intel 20" and an iBook G4 1,2GHz connected via an Airport Express (newest edition), both computers running 10.4.7.
When trying to transfer files via AFP between the two on my local network, I get "tremendous" speeds of about 0.5-1 MB/sec. Why is this so incredibly slow? Is it because of encryption or something similar? I can download off the internet with greater speed than that!

i have exactly the same problem , using a macbook black g1 . slow network speeds and flakey internet . these were ok when I first got the machine . but are now slow as . using the network view of menumeters I see that if i try and shift files from my mac mini they are incredibly slow with menumeters show 0.0kb/s for seconds at a time .
to trouble shoot this problem I used another friends macbook configured with exactly the same settings on this network and the transfer speeds were as they should be which was about 1.5-2.5 megs/sec .
so i figure there is some preference corrupted but which one ?
I have experienced several crashes recently . because of the overheating bug I have the fix applied to my machine and the firmware update . Maybe the network preference got corrupted at that point .
any tips as to which preference to delete would be appreciated .

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