Still no solution against choppy animations?

Hello,
since Leopard came out, I am experiencing choppy dock and expose animations. Somewhere I found a solution which seems to work, its a terminal command.
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Compositor -dict deferredUpdates 1
However it lags now as soon as I utilize my computer, even when I copy files. That bugs me, so I reinstalled MacOS (Couldnt find a way to undo that command, putting the variable to 0 didn't help). So now I have these annoying choppy windows again.
When is Apple finally going to fix this? I'm about to sell my MacBook Pro to get a Air eventually if this is not fixed soon, this bugs me really bad.
Bye,
Luka

I tried running that command, but when it asks me to input my password, my keys don't do anything/ It just won't let me type anything when it comes time to enter it.

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