Try this setting, it may help:

Settings > Sound & Display > Animation > No Animations

Also, make sure you don't have a ton of apps updating themselves or using data all at once without you knowing. That would slow things down.

I also use Launcher Pro Plus. I set the scroll and opening preferences to the fastest settings within Launcher Pro. It seems to be faster than the stock launcher.

 

ATK could be the issue. There are lots of threads on here about task killers causing problems with the phone. I would uninstall the task killer and reboot. Then see if it still happens.

 

ok, I'll bite. What "animation(s)" will we be missing when we turn it off. I never thought about turning them off but now that I have..... what am I missing? I can't tell?

 

Unfortunately you cannot resize widgets with Launcher Pro.

 

You can't resize motorola widgets, but you can resize other widgets in the Plus version.

 

How do I check this and stop them from doing that?

 

Hey everyone...I was suffering from the laggy phone. Especially when I click on anything messaging, but it was with more than just that. I think I may have figured it out though. I did the factory reset and this time I did not add Facebook to my accounts because last time it added them to my contacts. Beside, I use the m.facebook.com anyway. anyway I finished setting everything else up after the reset and everything is running really smooth and opening up nice and quick. Hope this helps!!

 

Forgive me for sounding stupid, but how do you do a factory reset? Will it erase all your contacts / pics / apps?

 

Factory reset is in the privacy section of the settings. It will but your contacts should be synced with gmail and will be put back intact after you reactivate...my pics were still there afterwards, and apps can be reinstalled from the market > downloads section...