Black capture screen in Win 7 unless aero themes are turned on

I have discovered through trial and error that unless I disable Aero themes on my powerful Windows 7 laptop, my captures always seem to drop a frame or two despite the souped-up resources I have (super fast processor, 16GB RAM, capturing to second hard drive,etc).  By the way, I am capturing through firewire from a Canon XL2 (DV) camera.
However, on other machines on which I have older versions of Premiere Pro installed, I can do this automatically by right clicking on my desktop Premiere Pro icon, choosing the compatibility tab, and putting a check in the "disable desktop composition" tab.  This basically toggles Aero off as soon as Premiere Pro starts loading, and toggles it back on when I close it.  But this has never worked with Premiere Pro CS6.  I have always had to manually disable Aero even though I have supposedly disabled it through the said compatibility tab of Premiere Pro CS6. 
That's never been a major problem until now.  Now, if PP CS6 is open and aero themes are disabled, I get a black capture screen (I can hear the audio but the capture screen is completely black).  But as soon as I toggle aero back on, the capture screen again displays video normally.  So, basically, if I intend to capture with PP CS6, I am forced into leaving Aero themes on so that I can monitor my capture, but if I do so, I drop frames.  Infuriating.
This seems to be a similar problem to the one I had a few months ago, "I get a black capture screen (preview), but video captures fine.  What gives?"
I got no suggestions for that problem other than to "use another application to capture," (UNacceptable since I paid BEAUCOUP bucks for CS6 and I have a perfectly reasonable expectation that it should perform), and "roll back to the previous update" [again, unacceptable, as  1) I have no idea how to do that and 2) updates are issued to resolve other problems, right?  So why should I be forced to roll back?].  Sorry, but these didn't help.
That particular problem was apparently "resolved" with a subsequent update, and there were no problems for a while (other than the fact that I could still not disable aero through PP CS6's compatiblity tab).  But now, apparently, there has been a further update that has caused this latest problem that never existed before.  Please help.

Regardless, Premiere Pro should not have an issue if I want to disable Aero themes.  CS6 is the only version that apparently does have an issue with it (and, even then, only recently, which leads me to beleive that a recent update is to blame).
I know this because I also have the old, old Premiere Pro 2.0 installed on the same machine.  If I disable Aero and then Open PP 2.0, the capture screen is just fine. 
But if I disable Aero and first open PP CS6, close it, and then open PP 2.0 instead, the capture screen in PP 2.0 is now black as well, and I cannot get it back unless I reboot.  Obviously, when I close PP CS6, some service or other, that I haven't been able to identify so far, is remaining open and affecting PP 2.0.
Again, all prior versions of PP have never had an issue with disabling Aero themes.  Why does CS6, all of sudden, absolutely need it enabled in order to work properly (though it doesn't work properly, it drops frames)?

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