Canon DSLR Video in Premiere Pro CS5

Iam now using Premiere Pro CS5. My Windows PC is running Windows 7 64 bit Pro with two 2.66 Ghz quad core processors, 12 GB RAM and a Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 GPU. I am also running dual EIZO 24 inch monitors vis display port connections.
I am editing Canon 5D MkII DSLR video. When I place the video in the time line I get the yellow bar across the top of the timeline. Should I be getting the yellow line. All the promo clips I have seen show it with no yellow bar untill you start adding filters etc.
Also when I play a single time line it does play smoothly but after about 10 to 20 seconds the clip stops palying and I have to restart. Also the clips do not scrub smoothly.
Any tips would be helpful.

I have one set of drives set up as Raid 1 and a second set of drives set up as Raid 0. Have tried the video on both sets of drives and get the same problem. Even tried putting the scratch disks on a seperate drive.
I am runing Windows 7 pro 64 bit, Two 2.66 Ghz quad core processors (not hyper threading) and 12 GB RAM so it is a reasonable sized machine.
I will double check the drivers for the graphics card but I am sure I have the latest as we only downloaded it last Wednesday (3 days ago).
This is all starting to sound like a hardware/setup problem in my PC.
I am sure I have Premiere set up right! The Mercury Engine (GPU mode) is running.
I am also sure that when I first installed it earlier in the week it was playing OK with the Quadro FX 4800 GPU (maybe I just imagined it). When I first installed CS5 I was running a Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 graphics card, which is not supported, and DSLR video played smoothly on CS5 timeline.
Things that have changed since I thought it was playing OK with the FX 4800.
1.     Changed from two Neovo Monitors running via digital output to Two EIZO Monitors running via Display Port output. (tried switching the monitors back - no change)
2.     Uninstalled Matrox RTX 2 drivers
3.     Installed Twixtor Pro Version 5
I don't consider myself a novice with all this - have been doing this for a number of years (12) but this has me buggered!
I am about to install CS5 on my laptop (once it has been upgraded to Windows 64 bit) so will be interested to see how video plays on that even though it won't have the Mercury GPU acceleration.
So for the long diatribe but thought it might be useful.

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