Well I have well and truly fixed the problem, I think. Couldn't convince da wife to let me buy a new computer, but I did buy a new graphics card, an ATI X1950. I don't know if it's a good card or not, but it was the most expensive AGP graphics card on the shelf at Best Buy, so I took it. I also got another 512MB of RAM bringing my system up to 1GB of memory. The processor itself is an AMD 3200+ 64bit processor. I figure that's still a lot of oomph even today. Also, since there was a place for it in my case, I went and installed another 80mm exhaust fan to help keep things cool.
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