I dunno about apples, but in a PC, faulty memory can slow the computer down or cause strange errors. Also, if memory is mismatched it can slow down. You can also, on a PC, I must stress I don't know Macs, have too much memory. Some motherboards have an optimum amount of memory, and if you go over that it can slow the machine way down. I'd experiment with the memory. Take the 64M out if that's what it is, and see how it runs with the 256M rack. Take the 256M out and see if it speeds up again. switch the position of the two modules. Sometimes a simple thing like where you put the memory can affect it. Some motherboards are real picky about how you arrange the memory. If I had the problem on the PC, the first thing I would do is to uninstall any new software I had put on before the problem started. If that wasn't the problem, then I would work on the memory. I'm assuming Mac memory is the same as PC memory, so the problems would essentially be the same,

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