Continental Livery and Frame Rate Detonation

PMDG and Users:I'm attempting to test out something here. Under FS9, I recently installed the Continental Livery package for the 737NG. Began a flight at KCLE (using 2D Cockpit). Once the Flight came up, I was presented with the worst frame rates I had ever seen in Flight Simulator including my 8-bit days with Sublogic's version; a literal slide show -- the simulator was completely unusable with mouse click updates taking about 3-4 seconds each click. Hmmmm...First I thought it was the dynamic weather or may be some kind of scenery density kickin my computer in the buttocks, so there I was reducing all my eye candy settings feeling quite humbled while staring ashamedly at my 3.0 Ghz 768MB Monster Machine with 32 valve dual overhead cam. I started with turning off dynamic weather