Why are illustrator CS4 3rd party plugin panels taking minutes to load?

Hello Everyone
I use IL on Mac and use some 3rd party plugins with my software [This problem is most noticeable with the Cvalley plugins - Filterit and Xtreampath]. The problem is that often they'll take many minutes to load and stay as blank grey panels [as seen in the picture] with no manipulatable variables - does anyone know the reason for this and how to speed up their load time? as you'd imagine it slows me down a lot.
Here's an image of one of the dreaded blank panels; http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d188/OphidianShenzi/blankpanel-1.jpg
Thank you greatly in advance again.

Are any of them PowerPC plugins (pre-2006)?
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Have you tried repairing permissions?
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