Change of Video Frame One Sample Out of Sync with Correct Point on Timeline

Question

Change of Video Frame One Sample Out of Sync with Correct Point on Timeline.
It has been found on the author's PC that, in Audition 3 in Multitrack View, a video file displayed in the video window will change its frame one sample later than it should do with respect to the correct point on the timeline. This has led to extra work having to be done by the author, as detailed later.
To demonstrate this issue:
Create a new multitrack session. Enable the Time and Video windows. Enable only 'Snap to Frames'.
Using an external program, render a two-frame video clip at 25fps. Let the first frame contain the letter 'A', and the second frame contain the letter 'B'. Making sure that the Display Time Format is set appropriately, in this case at 'SMPTE 25 fps (EBU)', lock this clip on the multitrack timeline, ensuring that the clip starts at time 00:00:00:00.
Create a mono audio clip of silence at 48kHz 32-bit that is two frames long. Lock it on an audio track, ensuring that the clip starts at time 00:00:00:00.
Place the cursor at time 00:00:00:01 and create a cue marker at this point by pressing F8.
Zoom into the timeline so that approximately twenty samples are visible, with the cursor lying on the cue marker in the middle of the screen. The Time window should display 00:00:00:01. The Video window should display the letter 'A'.
Move the cursor back in time (leftwards) by one sample. The Time window should change its display to 00:00:00:00, whilst the Video window should still show the letter 'A'.
Move the cursor forwards in time (rightwards) by one sample, so that it overlays the cue marker again. The Time window should change its display back to 00:00:00:01, whilst the Video window remains showing the letter 'A'.
Move the cursor forwards in time (rightwards) by one more sample. The Time window's display should remain at 00:00:00:01, but the Video window should now display the letter 'B'.
As can be seen from the above steps, the video's change of frame content occurs incorrectly one sample later than it should; the change of video frame content should occur simultaneously with the change of the frame number displayed in the Time window, which is at the point that the cue marker has been placed.
The practical effect of this issue is that it has caused the author a huge amount of extra work on an 89-minute long soundtrack-for-video timeline. There were over 1100 changes of shot which the author wished to mark by placing cue markers at the beginning of every shot. This should have been a quite simple process of enabling 'Snap to Frames', stepping through the video, and laying cue markers down by pressing F8 when the shot was seen to change.
Because currently the Video window (referencing the cursor laying over a cue marker
i that has been placed on the timeline using the 'Snap to Frames' option
) will actually display the end moments of the previous frame rather than the beginning moments of the current frame, laying down a cue marker when the shot is seen to change will actually place that marker at the beginning moments of the second frame of the new shot, not at the beginning moments of the first frame of the new shot, i.e. the cue marker placed will be one frame later in time than it should be. If it is wished for the cue marker to, as best it can, represent the beginning moments of the first frame of the new shot, it has to be manually repositioned so that it is at least a sample later in time than the time at which the shot has actually changed, in order for the Video window to correctly display the content.
The author had to manually reposition all 1100+ cue markers.
Ideally, the Video window should display a change of video frame in synchronization with the change of the frame display in the Time window, which occurs at the position of the 'Snap to Frames' point.
Part of the PC system's specification is detailed below:
Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP3;
Adobe Audition 1.0 Build 3211.2;
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Answer 1

obe Audition 2.0 Build 5306.2;
Adobe Audition 3.0 Build 7283.0;
ASRock 775dual-VSTA motherboard, BIOS Version P.3.00;
2.80 GHz Intel Pentium D Processor 915 2x2MB L2 Cache;
2GB DDRII 667 RAM;
Matrox G550 DualHead AGPx4 VGA card for Audition's two main work screens;
Matrox Productiva G100 MMS PCI VGA for two additional "static" information screens;
4 x PATA HDDs for OS & programs, swapfile & temp, project file sources, and guide audio;
Onboard Realtek ALC888 7.1 channel audio CODEC with High Definition audio;
Lite-On DVDRW LH-18A1P;
VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller.
ASIO4ALL version 2.8;
Via Hyperion Drivers 5.16a - (VIA Chipsets INF Update Utility V3.00A, VIA PATA IDE Driver Package V1.90, VIA SATA IDE Driver Package V2.30A, AGP V4.60A);
Matrox PowerDesk-SE 11.10.400.03;
Matrox Millennium G550 Display Driver Version 5.99.005;
Realtek High Definition Audio System Software Version R1.91, Audio Driver Version 5.10.0.5605;
DirectX 9.0c March 2008;
Microsoft .NET frameworks 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 with all service packs.