the following message is from Kevin Malone:
Maple technical support has been able to duplicate our system resource problem, and admits that Maple is "a hog" when it comes to system resources. Unfortunately, they have no way to change this. Technical support did say this problem would be addressed in future versions.

Maple Technical support was able to give me one suggestion when plotting, which may help save some system resources. The Maple 5.0 version that we are running included a new plotting driver, which is much more intensive that in older versions. Technical support suggested trying to add the following statement when doing a plot to revert back to the older version of the plotter:

plotsetup (gdi);

After adding this statement, Technical support says a warning error message will occur, but to disregard that message. To change back to the newer version of the plotter, type the following:

plotsetup (default);

After speaking with several Tech Reps and with the North Eastern Sales Manager, these are the results of my testing and troubleshooting. This problems resides with the program and not the University's computing environment. Hopefully, a new version will come out over the summer and address this issue, but if not, I can see these problems happening with Maple until it is addressed by Waterloo.