[orca-list] Orca becomes unresponsive periodically on Linux Mint 9

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

Anyone know what might be happening here? I'm trying out Linux Mint 9 
and am just about ready to switch back to Ubuntu. I got Orca installed 
and running here, but every 5 to 10 minutes, it becomes almost 
completely unresponsive for about 3 to 5 minutes. So far, the only thing 
I've been able to do is to restart Orca 10 times or more. Eventualy, 
this seems to cause the unresponsiveness to go away more quickly than 
just letting it run. It then works for another 5 to 10 minutes, at which 
point it hangs and the cycle starts over.

Someone told me that Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu and is easier to use, 
so I thought I'd give it a try. Being based on Ubuntu, I didn't think 
I'd have problems with Orca any more than on Ubuntu. Is there anything 
installed on a vanilla Mint system that could cause this problem? I seem 
to notice it most while Pidgin is running, but Pidgin in combination 
with Orca never gave me a bit of trouble on Ubuntu, all the way up 
through Maverick alpha2.

I kinda feel like I'm distro hopping just a little, but I do like to try 
different things and report bugs and request improvements so that I can 
make the OS even more usable for everyone. Since I'm not really that 
much of a programmer, it's basically my way of contributing to the 
community. Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

~Kyle