Brand New everything but just doesn't work as it should

Question

Hello,
        Just bought a £2000 HP Elitebook 2.8Ghz with 3gb ram, XP, and a lot a bells and whistles. Installed CS4 production Premium and then the updates for Premiere, Encore, Photoshop and Soundbooth.
Started a new project, connected my Panasonic HVX200 to import DVCPROHD 1080i50 footage - simple you would think.
Wont do it, locks up everytime.
Now I started using Premiere on version 5.1 many years ago but stopped using it on version 6 after getting sick of its crashing and instability.
I went over to FCP and it was a breath of fresh air to say the least.
When Premiere Pro first came out, I tested it on a brand new laptop, crashed within the first minute and that was the end of that !
After 5 years on virtually flawless FCP use I thought I'd try out Premiere again and guess what, nothings changed, it just doesn't work as it should.
How anyone on these forums makes any money from it and keeps their sanity is beyond me.

Answer 1

They must have corrected this oversight. I tried it out with the following TXT file, and indeed it no longer worked:
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. Why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call the thing left? Is it an odd, or an end?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
What a pity. I just hope that the queueing is taking less time than in the past. I will look at your info ASAP and report back.