Slow, Laggy, PITA to use.

[Pele2048]

Let me get the preliminaries out of the way:
Verizon HTC Touch Pro (Doesn't this one have half the RAM?)
Windows Mobile 6.1
ROM: 1.03.605.4 - 10/01/08
Radio: 1.03.03V

Even after a fresh reboot, the phone is still so incredibly slow and laggy in its response from everything from dialing, loading SMS messages, even unlocking the damn thing takes forever and I only have a four digit password.

I press a number on the screen and I have to WAIT... Did it register that I pressed that button? Sometimes there's a 5 sec lag time between the time I touched the screen and the time that star shows up on screen when unlocking.

Dialing is the same way... Sometimes I can even dial a full 10digit number and hit send before the first digit even is heard through the speaker.

Even with all Apps closed and after a fresh reboot, RAM usage as indicated by the task bar at the top shows over 60%... Is that free or used RAM?