After Effects 5.5 Clone Stamping Tool, running sluggish

I'm learning to use CS 5.5 and after effects and am currently editing a video to take out product numbers on different machines in the video. I've made it to about 20 seconds in my video but everytime I try to seek forward to make changes it takes forever and I see a status bar loading each time I switch Frames (it has to load each frame I seek through and there is over 2000 frames). At this rate it'll take forever just to edit a few product numbers out of a 1:20 (1min 20 sec) video.
I'm not sure if its just some settings I need to tweak or if I'm going about it the wrong way.
The machine I'm running is a hp z600 workstation with 2 xeon quad cores and 12 gbs of RAM with a 2gb video card, so I'm sure the PC isn't the issue.
Any feedback would be appreciated or any tips on editing would be greatly appreciated.
Josh
also, is there a way to only have the edited areas be visible for certain frames, as the parts in the video move, and once they move there is globs of color where I stamped over the product numbers
thanks again

No offense, but you seriously need to learn AE's basics first. You're treating it like you were working in Photoshop or like an edit suite, depending on what you want it to be most for the moment, but none of that reflects actualyl what AE is - a compositing program. Let me clarify:
everytime I try to seek forward to make changes it takes forever and I see a status bar loading each time I switch Frames (it has to load each frame I seek through and there is over 2000 frames).
Yes, almost nothing in AE is realtime. That's why people need to create RAM previews for realtime playback. Perfectly normal and in your case you are probably complicating the situation by using compressed formats where in order to show a given frame, several additional frames before and after need to be decoded. Fuirthermore, you may simply work off a slow drive.
The machine I'm running is a hp z600 workstation with 2 xeon quad cores and 12 gbs of RAM with a 2gb video card, so I'm sure the PC isn't the issue.
As per above - it likely isn't, but it's your wrong perception of AE and your wrong approach to the matter.
also, is there a way to only have the edited areas be visible for certain frames,
Yes, you split and duplicate layers. pelase refer to the online help for basic procedures on layer management
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