After Effects 1080P Render Issues

I am having a heck of a time RAM Previewing 1080P projects. They stop previewing after so many frames.
I set the preview to half, instead of full and it worked. But when I rendered the project, play back was in slow motion.
For a 10 second clip, the file was also 1.8 GB which seems drastically large.
Any tips would be HIGHLY appreciated.
Using CS3 and WinVista

>Any tips would be HIGHLY appreciated.
How does "Rob a bank and buy some equipment!" sound? ;-) As Andrew said, all you are seeing is pretty normal behavior for working with HD stuff, even on powerful systems. Check out this site for some ideas about the data rates and storage requirements you could/ should expect:
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=30
As you can see, the requirements are rather high for uncompressed stuff which in turn means that you'll need a quad-striped RAID with fast discs hooked up via SATAto get realtime playback and you will need a 64bit system with something like 32 GB of RAM to preview half a minute of footage at full res (assuming AE would be 64bit native and could do it). The absolute file sizes should be no worry, though. It just so happens I was strolling through our local Saturn electronics store and they had 500 GB discs for little more than 100 Euros.... Discs are ridiculously cheap these days (if you need them just for storage, not speed)
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