Video Playback in Bridge preview Window is Horrible

As far as I can remember, I've always had this problem in Bridge. All videos have horrible playback. The video is choppy and stutters and the audio is not in sync. It doesn't matter what format the video is in, although I have noticed that videos shot with my Canon AVCHD and converted to .mp4 format are worse. But overall there is no video format I've tried that does not stutter. All these videos play fine in Quicktime or any other video player.
I have CS5 design suite and a brand new 6-core Mac Pro, with 24GB of RAM and a ATI Radeon 5770, the problem is definitely not my system. What gives? I'd really like to get this fixed so I can preview my videos in Bridge. Its the easiest place to view multiple videos but I cant do that because of how bad the playback is. I've tried changing the few playback settings in preferences and it did not help at all.
Anyone else have this problem?

I am not a Mac user, I use Windows, however, Bridge is Bridge no matter what the OS.
It is my understanding that Bridge does not have a video engine. It uses Quicktime as the default. If you right click on the video what default program is listed? Try changing the default program and see if you get better results. My .mov video has Windows Media Player as the default and they play just fine. I realize this is a Windows program, but try VLC or some other program. With your machine you should get supurb results. Also, check the video card settings as this has more to do with playback than Bridge settings.
Here is a tidbit on the black frame issue I copied from another thread. Hope it is enlightning. "One of the reasons for the lack of display of a thumbnails is that the CODEC (the encoding/decoding module, used to create the file) is not usable by Adobe programs to display the initial image. Next, many AV files begin with black video, and Dip-to-Black (translated as Fade-from-Black here). If they get just an icon, it's the former. If they get a black Frame for the thumbnail, it's the latter."
Also, I don't think you can just rename the extension from .mov to .mpg. What you can do is take the .mov and convet it to mpg or some other format. Try this and see how it plays.

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