Very slow Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3 performance?

I'm using a MacBook Pro Core Duo 2GHz with 2GB of RAM installed, and I was reasonably hoping that when I installed the CS3 suite, it'd run like a dream.
I've found that when running Photoshop and Illustrator at the same time, with nothing else open but Mail.app and Safari, my MBP grinds to a halt for minutes at a time in mid-project. Switching between programs takes several minutes of beachball-spinning and stopwatch-running. It seems that performance degrades as I work: after working with large files, both programs are so slow as to be unusable until I restart them, or even my Mac.
My RAM is maxed out and I'm using a 500GB drive as an external scratch disk. I can't think of any way to optimize my performance... any ideas? Anyone else have this problem?

Im having the same problem on my MBPro Dual 2.4 17"! However I have had the performance issues before installing the latest Adobe suite. I too belived that purchasing the latest and greatest Apple Adobe guff, that I would have a seriously quick usuable workstation. To be honest I still get better performance from my Old 1.8Ghz G5 iMac with half the ram running the same set of apps. I also have set up for my clients (another studio) 3 brand new Intel iMacs and surprise surprise they too are not kicking the dual G5's they replaced. I hate to say it but I have recently been working on a combination of both my 1.2Ghz WinXP Athlon machine and old iMac and had a far better workflow than waiting for the MacBookto get its act together! Maybe Intel really is not the way to go, as I have also found the Core Duos to NOT multitask very well either! Apple I will never be buying a new Mac again, and don't be surprised if a 17" MacBook Pro ends up on eBay very soon! Jay please let me know if you have found some kind of solution, as running one app at a time (as suggested in a prev post) is not really what we shelled out the $$ for!

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