Speeding up Working and Rendering

I'm using an older Mac Pro 3,1 (quad core, 2.8 ghz, 16 Gb ram) with AE CS6. I know about the nVidia cards, and plan to upgrade to one of those when I can, but in the mean time ...
Rastered files from Photoshop (like 20 images all less than 450px X 450px) all but brings AE to its knees here (10 images 3D layers, 10 more not 3D). Just moving things around on the screen for desired placement takes about 65 seconds for screen refresh (at full size 1920x1080 and 1/3 resolution), which means placing 10 images with accuracy can take an hour. Photoshop, by comparison (at 64-bit) is a speed-demon on this machine. Not so After Effects, particularly with rastered imagery. It's taking over a minute to preview each frame (1/2 size at 1/4 rez), and about 15 minutes to render each frame at full size, which means it's going to take 24 hours to get 4 seconds at 24pfs.
I've read some blogs and helpfile suggestions on how to speed up workflow, and am integrating those principles as I go, but is this all-day-long slowness with rastered stills what I should expect from After Effects? Or are there other non-hardware things I can do to speed things up?

I'm going to take that as good news, and a clear indication I'm doing something stupid.
Here is a typical image set, each from a layer in a larger many-layered Ps file (flattened and loaded into AE as one flat layer each with NO Fx): Letter, and Shadow
The third is showing how the two images end up together in AE.
This is a very simple animation of letters "falling down" to form a word. There are 10 letters, and 10 corresponding shadows. Each letter is "around" 450x450, with a shadow element of the same size. The color letters are each on a 3D layer, and each "shadow" is on a normal layer, making 20 layers total. They are at 2/3 size when at rest, but a bit larger as they begin to fall, hence the larger rez. The shadow has changing gaussian blur and opacity as the color letter moves toward it. There is one set of keyframes for the first letter and its shadow, and expressions with time-offset for all the other letters and shadows.
It rendered all night, and now I have 31 frames ...
What else can I tell you?

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