Thanks. here are some more tips:

http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/...oxtweak/4.html

I use the 'general' tweaks and the ones for 'Slow Computer, Fast Connection' mentioned in the article and it speeds up things quite a bit, or gives a faster 'feel' as with the glayout.initialpaint.delay setting. I assume these settings do have some tradeoff/downsides or else they would be default.