VERY disappointing Illustrator CS2 performance on a G5 Quad

I just spent a ridiculous amount of money to upgrade to Creative Suite 2 and to a Quad G5 and noticed that Illustrator CS2 uses only maximum 25% of my computer's processing power.
Using activity monitor I can see that Illustrator never goes beyond 100%, whereas Photoshop goes all the way to 400% usage when needed.
Saving/opening complex graphics still takes way too long, as also using 300ppi effects like outer glow. It's so frustrating to know that 3/4 of the processing power is just idle no matter how long the beachball spins on my screen.
And Adobe says Illustrator CS2 is a professional app with multiple processor support?!
Editing complex drawings is still painfully slow even if I have a Quad G5 with 4.5GB RAM... I'm so mad at Adobe right now...
Any suggestions what I should do?

G5s came out two years ago. It took another 18 months or so for CS2 and Tiger to begin to leverage that G5 and begin to better utilize more than 2 or 4GB address space.
Sometimes programmmers follow Apple guidelines, sometimes they think they know a trick or two to make things work better. Notice how Tiger takes over and provides caching.
Tiger has much much better thread management/creation.
It takes time to learn how to use, optimize and write for G5, and to use Xcode (2.2). Plus, you really need access to machines to test and run code on. One guess, that in six months Tiger will help bridge four cores better. And Adobe will monitor their code, threading, memory handling, and see if there are problems.
One question, how different or alike is it to have dual core AND dual proceessor? A decision tree is no longer A:B but needs to look at A:D to see who is busy and who is waiting.

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