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I had noticed my iMac 1.25 GHx slowing down. Here’s what sped it up most:

• Getting more RAM. I upgraded from 256 Mb to 768 Mb. Applications loaded faster, particularly when lots of them were already running. Especially noticeable when other users were still logged in.
• Cleaned Application cache. Using System Optimizer X I was able to do this, which while it makes each application pop up a dialog the first time it is run via a double-click on a document, fixes corruption in the Application Cache, enabling applications to load much faster. This includes the Finder, so it only takes seconds (instead of minutes) to log in.
• Update executable library prebindings. Since this too was done with SOX, I wasn’t able to tell which of these two made the biggest difference.

No, I’m not affiliated with SOX, and apparently it’s possible to do just about everything here with CLI commands, I just don’t know what they are yet…