Danteism

Here are a few suggestions you might try. First thing, a lot of what Apple says you shouldn't do with your mac is said to protect themselves, period. I quit taking their advice 12 years ago. I run 9.2.2 on all of my macs, including a PM 8600/300, PM 9500/120, PM 9600/300, and G3 B&W. I also run MRJ 2.2.6 and don't use oracle. Without getting to techy, boost the memory in the get info dialog box of LW. Another good idea would be to boost your disk cache in the memory control panel to a custom setting. The formula to figure that is 32K times every 1MB of RAM that you have. Don't count VM as actual RAM. You should see a marked improvement. For example, my 8600 had a disk cache default setting of 8160K. I increased it to 14336K based upon my installed RAM.

MonkeyBoy

The uninstallation of an older version of Apple MRJ occurs automatically with the installation of the newer or updated version. Also, you really need to get more RAM and increase your disk cache. 4MB is mighty small for this day and age.