Adobe media encoder cs4 extremely slow (5 hours for 8 minute video)

I know you have seen slowencoder issues before, but I have tried everything I can to fix this and need help.
Lets start with basic info:
8 minute vieo takes over 5 hours to generate final video.
Observations:  3 processes are running most of the time, with over 2GB memory left over and available, I/O is low, CPU is at 90 to 100 percent for hours during encode.
PProHeadless.exe 48-50%
Adobe Media Encoder.exe  30-40%
ImporterProcessServer.exe  can be from 30-50% CPU but not constant.
I live in San Jose, and am willng to take this laptop to your Office to debug it personally. (FYI)
CS4: 4.2.1 with all updates applied
ALL Encoder OUTPUT is set to a 128GB Solid State Drive drive so there are very low delays on I/O: SAMSUNG MMCRE28G8MXP-0VB.
This setting is in the general disk setting, media cache files, etc.  All I/O is to this drive, except the project file which for some reason gets copied to temp on c drive... (no I/O there however)
OS Boot drive is the seagate hybrid drive and is also very fast: ST95005620AS
H.264 with preset Youtube HD wide screen standard preset
All Video source files are this format from either a sony HDV or a panasonic HDV.
SONY HDV:  30 Interlaced
Type: MPEG Movie
File Size: 78.3 MB
Image Size: 1440 x 1080
Pixel Depth: 32
Frame Rate: 29.97
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - compressed - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Total Duration: 00;00;24;13
Average Data Rate: 3.2 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.3333
Panasonic: 60P:
Type: MPEG Movie
File Size: 142.0 MB
Image Size: 1920 x 1080
Pixel Depth: 32
Frame Rate: 59.94
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - compressed - 6 channels
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - 6 channels
Total Duration: 00;00;45;30
Average Data Rate: 3.1 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0
Sysinfo:
OS Name    Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
Version    6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description     Not Available
OS Manufacturer    Microsoft Corporation
System Name    JBRANDT-WS
System Manufacturer    LENOVO
System Model    4389AB8
System Type    x64-based PC
Processor    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       Q 720  @ 1.60GHz, 1600 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date    LENOVO 6NET74WW (1.34 ), 10/27/2010
SMBIOS Version    2.6
Windows Directory    C:\Windows
System Directory    C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device    \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale    United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer    Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name    CISCO\jbrandt
Time Zone    Pacific Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM)    8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory    7.93 GB
Available Physical Memory    1.99 GB
Total Virtual Memory    7.93 GB
Available Virtual Memory    1.58 GB
Page File Space    0 bytes
DISPLAY:
Name    NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M
PNP Device ID    PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A3C&SUBSYS_214517AA&REV_A2\4&5AED965&0&0018
Adapter Type    Quadro FX 880M, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description    NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M
Adapter RAM    1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Installed Drivers    nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version    8.17.12.5738
INF File    oem77.inf (Section052 section)
Color Planes    Not Available
Color Table Entries    4294967296
Resolution    1600 x 900 x 49 hertz
Bits/Pixel    32
Memory Address    0xCC000000-0xCDEFFFFF
Memory Address    0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF
Memory Address    0xCE000000-0xDFFFFFFF
I/O Port    0x00002000-0x00002FFF
IRQ Channel    IRQ 16
I/O Port    0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port    0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address    0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver    c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys (8.17.12.5738, 12.46 MB (13,065,064 bytes), 6/28/2010 6:21 AM)
Adobe Project file:
  XML 400 pages so skipped
Encoding additional info:
I use time Warping ON SOME OF THE CLIPS, and I TOOK 2 of the 60P videos and set the time to 10% and 20% IN THIS PROJECT FOR SLOW MOTION OF THE ENTIRE CLIP.
Another note that you need to look at separately:
I have seen issues trying to time warp and 60P video interpreted at 30P and time warped.  It displays fine, but WILL NOT RENDER.  I deleted these and re-did them at 10 and 15% time respectively to get the video rendered.
Looking forward to help.
Jim

Harm:
Cost: I got 2 of the Kingston 128GB SSD V100 from Costco at around 165 each  (after rebate). They are on sale, and there is a 40 rebate each drive  (up to 2) rebate.
Yes you are right, I did not expect improvements for Premiere pro, but I installed because I use this configuration on other systems for 1 year... and here are the results...
ALL of the data on this sytem is backed up on my 8TB server.  I can loose anything here and get it back. I see the OS as just another replaceable disk.
I used the system motherboard hardware Raid 0 for C: AND...  I put 3 of the 1TB drives on the motherboard hardware raid as a data disk.  Data disk is ALL scratch disk, for the encoded files and cache.  Source files are on the other software striped drive.  Of course I loaded a fresh install and moved to Windows 7 64bit...
Overall observations:
     As you predicted encode times did not improve much, It was 15 minutes vs 17 minutes at 2.66 clock. I am unimpressed with the Intel Motherboard Raid 0. I saw the SSD was blazingly fast, but I think moving these to a RAID controll they will go faster.  Each SSD drive in 200+MB/S rated.
What I do see is dramatic improvements in load times of the OS and ANY  program you run.  The pagefile was moved back to this raid 0 drive after  benchmarks. RUNNING ANY application (adobe, microsoft, ALL are blazingly fast to load).
Example: Premiere pro CS5 from click on launch to CS5 prompting for a project name was  5.5  seconds...  I would not take this out of the system for any money saved.  It is amazing.  Almost as good as the nvidia quadro FX 4000 Display card and the CS5.
My NEXT investment IS the RAID controller, and 6 of the Hitachi deskstar 3TB 6GPS Sata III drives to replace all my current drives. Next month or so for that.
I want components that I can keep in the system when I do replace the motherboard and CPU.  I will tune this system as I have funds, and ask for help when this system no longer is viable and replace the motherboard.  I will ask for the fastest motherboard and CPU combo that you can buy, and keep my 730X(treme) case and add a water cooler.  As drives add 1TB a year in size, they seem to meet myneeds and I replace the old every 2 years to get the space I need.
As always your comments are spot on and I appreciate your reviews.
Bechmarks are from CPUID's toolkit, here are the disk benchmarks:
Disk Performance in   MB/S
OS
Sequential read
Sequential Write
buffered read
buffered write
random read
Improvements:   Sequential write MB/Sec
Sequential read
buffered read
buffered write
random read
C: 1   velociraptor
Vista   Ultimate
97.38
72.45
139.05
128.52
33
Baseline
Baseline
Baseline
Baseline
Baseline
C: Motherboard Hardware Raid 0 128G Kingston (220gb)
Windows   7 64bit
230.98
98.92
229.59
229.59
53
237.19%
136.54%
165.11%
178.64%
160.61%
Data 1: software raid 2 drives
Vista   Ultimate
108.36
54.66
121.05
73.01
34
Baseline
Baseline
Baseline
Baseline
Baseline
Data 1: software raid 2 drives
Windows   7 64bit
111.35
55.6
131.83
74.58
25
102.76%
101.72%
108.91%
102.15%
73.53%
Data 2:3 software raid 0 3 drives
Vista   Ultimate
129.4
160.7
154.49
143.7
29
Baseline
Baseline
Baseline
Baseline
Baseline
Data 2: Motherboard Hardware Raid 0 raid 0, 3 drives
Windows   7 64bit
132.5
212.66
179.59
162.85
44
102.40%
132.33%
116.25%
113.33%
151.72%

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    Adobe Media Encoder CS 4.2.0 failed to install.
    I doubt I make much use of said encoder, but what do I know. I'm primarily an InDesign user with a small amount of Photoshop work. I guess I'll just continue ignoring this message.
    Dave

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