Thanks for checking Crucial for me. I clicked your link and read their stuff. It was impressive. The scale tipper for me was that I have had prior, very good experience with OWC and decided to stick with them for that reason. Brand loyalty is why companies use brands to get and retain customers. I don't know whether it's a personal strength or weakness for people to pay attention to brands. I appreciate your interest in this troubleshoot. It looks like I'm finally in the clear and that more RAM played a major, if not the major part. It's a mystery to me why it did. I watched Activity Monitor carefully and there was always a very large percentage of Free RAM available when I only had 2Gb RAM, but I can't deny the great results that began the moment the extra 2Gb RAM was added.
