Woohoo Shawn, that's it!  Your post made me curious so I went to system properties and changed for best performance and saw it worked!

Afterwards, I played around until I found exactly what was causing it, pretty simple to reconfigure but I thought I'd include a little visual aid for any others who might be having the same problems.  

Note:  I'm running Windows XP Pro SP3, not sure how this can be configured on a different system.

So, in a nutshell, go to your computer's system properties and in the Advanced tab under "Performance" click on the settings.   Normally XP has everything selected. I just unchecked the first since I saw it was an animation as Shawn pointed out and now I can resize the tree in the P8 library :)

I don't say it often enough but I'm thankful for this community,  In over ten years that I've been here I've never had a problem that wasn't solved (not to mention the plethora of other useful information) by the members here and for that I thank you all!