A good way to reset your wave profiler as suggested by an e-mail I recieved from Cakewalk, is to delete:
cw9audddx.ini and ttsseq.ini in the cakewalk dirrectory. Then restar cakewalk. Especially if you change or update your soundcard drivers.
Anyway, I have nothing running in the taskbar and everything tweeked, and I can't believe things should be this slow. Maybe it's time for a re-format or motherboard update.