The spinning beach ball of death...doom...annoyance
I have a 2.0gig dual processor G5 with 8gb of RAM, and 20 inch Cinema Display running 10.3.5. No matter what I am doing, I frequently get the spinning beachball. I can be in the Finder moving files, clicking open a drive, etc. or in Freehand MX, Word, Photoshop, etc. and the ball shows up for anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute and a half. I have replaced my RAM, repaired permissions, optimized drive, bought a faster boot drive, and even reinstalled everything fresh. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in advance to anyone that can help.