Quite a few of us are troubleshooting 8.2.2. Hopefully, Sandeep is onto something. I am working with Raja, my SQL expert, and he is looking at things as well. He doesn't really thing moving to Standard would necessarily be that helpful, BUT, at least it is much easier to make the switch than it was with 2005.
He feels SSDs are much faster but not necessarily with a database for what its worth. He has more to do, but he tends to look at Amazing Charts as more of the culprit.