Contour HD1080 Files Jerky Premiere CS4

My system is a Dell m1330, core 2 duo 2.4GH, 4 gigs ram, Vista 32bit
Ok I am a bit new to these new file formats. I am trying to edit some footage from my Contour HD 1080 on Premiere CS4 and it plays really jerky and freezes at points. I do not have any of those POS codec packs installed. the only thing I have installed is Coreavc Pro. Coreavc was the only way I could get the files to play correctly in Media Player Classic (which plays them just fine now so I know its not a hardware speed thing). I tried to install Quicktime and that was not even able to play the Contour MOV files correctly, because of this I removed Quicktime from my computer. I have tried to rename them to MP4 and use them in Premiere and it has the same effect.
Has anyone out there been able to play and edit these Cont HD MOV files with Premiere CS4. I would love to hear of a workflow so I can stop wasting time and get down to business.I would like to avoid installing Quicktime on my system if I can, I would love to be able to use CoreAVC with premiere (becuase it seems like the only thing that works with these ridiculous files), and I don't wont to have to convert hours of footage before it will work in Premiere if I have to.
This is what Premiere says the file is:
Type: QuickTime File
File Size: 520.3 MB
Image Size: 1920 x 1080
Pixel Depth: 24
Frame Rate: 29.97
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Total Duration: 00:05:02:27
Average Data Rate: 1.7 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0
QuickTime Details:
Movie contains 1 video track(s), 1 audio track(s) and 0 timecode track(s).
Video:
There are 9087 frames with a duration of 1/29.97th.
Video track 1:
Duration is 0:05:03:06
Average frame rate is 29.98 fps
Video track 1 contains 1 type(s) of video data:
Video data block #1:
Frame Size = 1920 x 1080
Compressor = Ambarella AVC encoder
Quality = Least (1.00)
Audio:
Audio track 1 contains 1 type(s) of audio data:
Audio data block #1:
Format = 16 bit - Stereo
Rate = 48000.0000 Hz
Compressor = MPEG 4 Low Complexity AAC
This is what G Spot says the file is:
qt : Apple QuickTime (.MOV/QT)
File Type: QuickTime (.MOV)
Mime Type: video/quicktime
Recommended Display Size: 1920 x 1080
Created: 2010 Apr 29 03:12:15
Modified: 2010 Dec 23 20:30:17
Thanks for any help
MD

What is your drive setup?
Read Harm on drive setup http://forums.adobe.com/thread/662972?tstart=0
- click the embedded picture in Harm's message to enlarge to reading size
- you need AT LEAST 2 drives for video editing, 3 is better
- some HD formats work better with (require) RAID
Read Hunt on Partitions http://forums.adobe.com/thread/650708?tstart=0
A link with many ideas about computer setup http://forums.adobe.com/thread/436215?tstart=0
And even more hardware discussion http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/hardware_forum

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