[groovilator]

Thanks, CB. I followed your performance suggestion in My Computer and my machine is running a little faster. Also I reset the priority in Task Manager and that solved my problem ("above normal" setting works fine). Except now when Pro Tools is running everything else slows wwaaaayyyy down which will make it difficult when I need to multitask (accessing reference material, etc.). Buying a new system is definitely going to be my long term solution but at least for now I know I can still get some work done. And I now know of a number of different things I can try for getting me by. Thanks.