Anyone figured out how to resolve choppy videos?

They previously worked fine. Now the audio is Ok, but video is choppy, 3-4 sec increments. I thought about buying another video to see how that one plays, but even the free preview is choppy. My system has plenty of speed and memory, whats the deal? Now that they have my money, I'm stuck with crap. I've seen other people with this problem on here, but really no answers???
  Windows XP Pro  

Well, this is going to sound crazy, and it worked for 2 out of the 3 PC's in my house, but here is the work around.
For some reason, iTunes is getting very choppy on video I purchase. After some reading, it appears it is only choppy when the video is stored on my C: drive (could be any internal drive, but I only tested the C: drive).
SO, I tried putting an episode of LOST on a USB memory stick and on a Network Drive I have here at the house. After copying the show to the new locastions, I deleted the version in my iTunes folder. I also went in to the preferences on iTunes and under advanced UNCHECKED the "Copy Files to iTunes Music Folder When Adding to Library"(this way I was sure it was playing from the remote drives).
Then under FILE in iTunes I click Add File to Library and selected the espisode on the external locations. Took a few seconds to process the file, then it appeared in the library. Hit play, and VOILA! It was working on one desktop, and one laptop (both running Vista, both Core2Duo, Both 2gigs RAM). However, the 3rd laptop, is MUCH better, but still suffers from some stuttering.
So, basically, here is what I did in steps:
1) Copy video to remote folder
2) Delete video from iTunes folder
3) Add remote video file to iTunes Library
4) Watch and enjoy!
If you have an external USB or FireWire Drive, I am assuming this could help too. Since it only worked on 2 out of my 3 PC's, it is obviously not a fix all, but on the 2 it fixed, it really did fix it.
Steve

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