Any cures for dropped frames

It seems as though ever since I upgraded to Tiger and FCEHD 3 I getting more dropped frames when I play back my video sequences in the timeline. Aside from the info in the dropped frames warning box, of which I all to familiar with now, is there something else I can try to rectify the problem. BTW my scratch disk is a 120GB Ezquest Cobra 2 drive.
Thanks.

Thanks Al. I've checked all the easy stuff and still am getting drops. I'm beginning to suspect that a defrag is in order. My external hd is partitioned (80GB for video and 40GB for music files). The drive was completely zeroed out when I set up the partition.
The dropped frames occur in the exact same spots in the same clips in the sequence. These clips play fine in the Viewer and I had no problems when I captured them.
How does this approach sound:
Recapture the clips and see if the dropped frames resolve.
If that doesn't work then back up my external drive and defrag it. Hopefully my project will not be negatively affected.
Lastly buy another external hd and dedicate it to video files.
How does that approach sound? Any other advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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