StarOffice too SLOW with presentations

[Joel Hammer]

Well, I tried hard, but StarOffice just can't handle my big
powerpoint presentations which have three dozen 1 meg or
more digital images. I increased the memory to 256 megs,
and about 2 megs per inserted object, and allowed 50
objects. The cache memory can't be made bigger than 256
megs. Maybe SO is supposed to not be a resource hog on a
multiuser system. This may be a mistake. Nothing helped. It
was so slow in the slide view mode it was unusable. It
took many minutes to paint one page of slides. Not only
was it slow but it didn't seem to cache anything, so
every movement of slides took a LONG time to redraw the
screen. This is running on a one gig Duron chip with 630
megs of memory. Powerpoint has no trouble with these files
with a gig centrino chip (equivalent to a 2 gig Pentium)
with a lot less memory.

If someone knows how to tweak SO so it can handle this
sort of situation, I'd like to hear about it. 

Joel