[scribus] Scribus 1.3.5 very very slow

[Roger]

I feel there's something terribly wrong with 1.3.5 or with  the way I'm doing 
things???

I have a very fast new mb core2 dup cpu 2 gig ram nvidia 8600GT fast 3d video 
card renders 2d and 3d blisteringly fast.


Scribus file is:

3500 word plain text file unformatted that needs to be put in linked text boxes 
on about 20 pages.
  I have so far:
15 x A4 pages with one text box per page linked to the following text box
Plain text Verdana 8 point plain
2 columns on each page right and left justified.

It takes 120 seconds (2 minutes) to select the next page to place a text box on 
that page.
90 seconds (minute and a half) to select the previous text box
then click on the link-text-boxes = 15 seconds to finish
then 90 (minute and a half) seconds to select the new empty text box and flow 
the text as plain text no columns.

To make the text box 2 column it takes 90 seconds to select the text box, 15 
seconds to change  1 columns to 2
15 seconds to change the gap to 3
90 seconds to deslect the text box

To format 10 pages as above has taken way over minutes in total
Memory usage 20 percent, CPU usage occasionally 85 percent and swaps between the 
2 processors, one down one up at a time not 2 together.
My computer is not working hard so what is slowing Scribus to a crawl?

I have noticed that Scribus slowed about 15 percent using Qt4 but have no 
further information on why or what to look for.
TIA
Roger