I notice in the images, the minimum page file size is only slightly larger than the amount of ram being currently used.

I know this isn't XP, but Windows XP was always a little flaky when it was allowed to manage the page file size. My system would always grind to a halt when XP decided to expand the page file size. The fix was to make the page file bigger, and make the min and max sizes the same.

Do later versions of Windows suffer the same problem?