Playback in edit window of PE8 is bad quality and slow/choppy

I just bought a new PC (yesterday!)  so I could use this software and make movies.
It's running windows 7, on HP pavilion p6310, 64 bit, quad-core processor,1 T hard drive, NVIDIA geforce 9100 graphics, 15-1 memory card reader.
My camera is a Canon ZR 850 mini DV.
Project setting: NTSC-DV-standard 48kHz
i ran msconfig and shut down what I could.
I updated quicktime and new drivers from NVIDIA
My clips are beautiful in Photoshop's organizer. They're great when i preview them in premiere. When i bring them into the edit window playback is terribly, choppy, and grainy and just plain bad. Will this change when my project is complete? or is this the quality of my finished project. What have I done wrong? What more can I do?
I've heard people talk of "rendering" on this forum. Not sure if that is something that I have to do, or if it is done automatically.
Please advise.
Thanks so much.

Hunt,
Yes, I capture with firewire.
I updated PrE8
read that article, it was very helpful,
I do have another hard drive I use to back up all my pics and videos,
I don't know what particians and controller type is,
I changed the monitor to 100% instead of fit. It doesn't look any different to me, just smaller. I don't have the quality settings, just as you thought
I'm not sure what GPU accelleration and Open GL settings are?
I'll look over the OS optimization tips too. Don;t know how i missed that.
Thanks so much for your help.
Neale,
Thanks for your advice. The one thing on my old PC I hated to give up was Nero. It was installedon my old PC by someone in my husbands office and i don't have the original disc to put it on my new PC

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