More on the lag

Is anyone else having this problem with lag/latency spikes? And more importantly, did you manage to fix it?

I'm wondering if removing WoW completely and reinstalling it would help. But given all of the patches I would need to download, I'm a bit hesitant to do that.

I submitted a petition, but it's been an hour and a half with no answer.

EDIT: Dammit, I'm finally looking at the Mac support forum (just occurred to me that none of the PC users I know seem to be having this issue, or not even close to the same extent). Apparently the one thing that has been working for people is a complete reinstall. *sigh* Well, guess I won't be playing for a couple of days — it took me nine hours to install in the first place, so I highly doubt, with the new content patches since I started playing, that it will be any quicker this time.

EDIT II: Spoke too soon. This has only worked for a couple of users; others report doing it and still having problems. One person said they partitioned their iMac and installed Windows XP, and are having no trouble on that version of WoW but still having framerate/lag issues on their Mac version.

So, back to the drawing board. If it comes down to it and I have to, I'll do the partition thing, but I'd really prefer not to.

EDIT III: AND this is a known issue with my crap video card; apparently for Macs using the GMA 950 video card, there is a known bug with Leopard 10.5.5 that causes problems with WoW's graphics, which is why I can hop on, play for about 15 minutes, then have to reboot my computer.

So, if you are having this problem and have a GMA 950 card (older MacBooks and Mac Minis usually have this), I spoke with a tech at Apple. What you need to do is get your Leopard install disc and once it's in, shut down your computer. Restart it while holding down the "C" key. Choose your language, choose "Archive and Install" and make sure to preserve user and network settings, and this will revert you back to the original version of Leopard that you had on your computer.

Then, go to the 10.5.4 Combo Downloader on Apple's website and download that. Do not download and install through your Software Update menu — this will just give you 10.5.5 again.

Unfortunately, I cannot find my stupid disc — but you know what? I don't really care all that much about Leopard, and WoW ran quite a bit better for me in Tiger anyway due to Leopard's higher memory demands. I don't really use my computer for much beyond archiving photos of my cats and surfing the web anymore anyway. Since I know where my Tiger disc is, I might just hop back to that until I can get a new computer.

UPDATE: This did not actually help much. My screen stopped freezing and I don't think I'm having any more latency problems, but my framerate is still 6-11 fps.