Very slow render, why?

Hi, am running FCP 5.1.4, and rendering has recently become extremely slow. Has anyone got some suggestions of tests, procedures etc I might run, to get things back up to speed?
have tried cleaning up the drive, repairing permissions and deleting thumbnail cached files, but no luck.
Please help!
Thanks

So were the previous speedy renders with exactly the same settings?
If so, a few things to try:
Run something like MacJanitor, or MacCocktail to run Cron routines
Run Diskwarrior on drives
Delete fcp preferences
Relocate thumbnail caches (a long shot, but has fixed sluggishness in fcp loading so worth a try).
Repair disk permissions
Also, describe your hardware configuration and in particular your hard drives. Disconnecting unnecessary drives might help.

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