Wheel of Death on new Macbook Pro

A month ago, I purchased a new 15" i7 macbook pro. Ran like a dream. Last week I purchased and upgraded my ram from 4gb to 8gb from OWC....Also, I purchased and installed Adobe Production Premium CS5. Ever since then...my computer is soooooo slow. I get the colored wheel of death all of the time....when I try to minimize apploications they dont go down to the bar. And today I got the wheel when trying to watch a flash video online....and then a window popped up saying flas player crashed! Anyone have any ideas as to what the heck is going on? I have over 400GB free hard drive space so that can't be the culpret.

Reinstall the old RAM and test. If everything goes back to normal, you have your answer.

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http://www.macmaps.com/frayguide.html
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