Smart Albums iPhoto Ver. 6

When looking at photo thumbnail view of a smart album have noticed the performance is very poor (slow). Also noticed when paging the thumbnail resolution is not clear (fuzzy). If dbl_click a photo to edit, click done, the screen repaints and the thumbnail is clear...page(scroll) and the thumbnail is fuzzy.
Also, if a photo is selected, can't page past the selected photo.
Also, when creating a album (regular or smart), the pop-up window to name the album comes up but my mac is very slow to respond to typing. I type the name, but it takes several seconds for the characters to appear.
If I create just an Album with the same pics in it, everything seems fine.
I have rebuilt the photo thumbs and the library and have less than 500 pics 95% smaller than 1.5 MB each.
Can anyone help me?

Thanks for the quick response....
I have the following config:
iMac G5 2.1Ghz PowerPC, 1GB 533 DDR2 SDRAM
I am pretty certain it is not a problem with the config...here is why.
I created a test smart album with one criteria line MyRating is **, everything seemed fine. I added a second criteria Album is <specific album>, everything is fine.
I move the test smart album under a folder (folder also contains the <sepcific album> being used in the second criteria, everything seems fine. I remove the second criteria statement, i get fuzzy images and can't scroll past selected image.
I move the test smart album out of the folder, and the images immediately go from fuzzy to clear and scrolling is fine. I add the second criteria, everything is fine.
I have other smart albums under other folders and they seem to be fine, the difference being one criteria statement looking for specific keywords vs looking inan album in the same folder and having two criteria.
I am going to do some further testing and will post any new info.
Any thoughts? thanks again.

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