Digital BW, The Print

I scan in 4x5 negatives at 4800 dpi, 16-bit grayscale,
and am having a tough (read: slow) time of it with
Photoshop 6.0 with the resulting files.  Actually, I
can't even work with the 50-90 mg .jpeg's, but instead
downsize to roughly 12 megapixels and then
dodge/burn/tweak those.  Does anyone here work with
digital files around 50-90 megs in Photoshop that is
happy with the quickness of their setup in doing so? 
Right now, with the machine I have, manipulating such
files is impossible.

My machine is an Athlon XP 1.46 Ghz with 1 gig of DDR
RAM.  Two possible bottlenecks from what I know are
memory bus speed (333 Mhz with my current motherboard)
and also the version of PS I'm using.  CS might be
faster from the get-go?

Thanks in advance,

Matt

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