Why is my MacPro so SLOW at everything?

Ok, I 've been using my MacPro for the past 2 weeks and I must say it has been a headache. Hopping between apps is really slow and the overall system performance in slower than my older 1.8 GHz DP G5.
I do a lot of heavy Photoshop (CS2) work daily and it has been a nightmare. Once PS is open every other app struggles. Illustrator shuts down everytime I try to switch between it and Photoshop. Its as if the clipboard cannot store any medium size file in memory. Even when working on small files the machine struggles to run multiple apps.
I only have 1GB of ram installed. Is this a bare minimum or something? How much better will another 1GB make my machine. I've heard that MacPro's need lots of ram to function smoothly is this true? Is there something 'on' by default that is bogging down my machine?
Please help. I'm losing precious production time each day.

Hi just got a question for you.
I'm a graphic designer and I have used a 1.8 DP G5 with 1G of RAM for distilling my files and such.
I have recently been working on a imac G5 2.0Gz with 2g of RAM.
All my cs apps work fine creating my ads in illustrator and photoshop doesn't lag to much in comparison to the PowerMac....until I start distiling and postscripting files in Indesign and Acrobat Distiller, at which point time stands still for hours on end, I really need to buy and "PRO" mac, i can't keep creating my pdfs this way.
Since I've started my own business I can't use my ex-bosses DP G5 anymore so I need to buy one.
Here is the question, Do you think a Pro mac is faster than the imac G5 when using Adobe CS, and if not should I buy a Power Mac G5, even do we all know Apple will give the PowerPC machines the booth in the next 24 months or so?

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