Curious about capture preview

Just received and installed my new 8-core Mac Pro and was excited about running Premiere Pro CS5 on it.  I have a Canon HV20 with a number of tapes full of HD video, and I monkeyed around with the HV20 with Premiere Elements on my last computer (a PC running XP) so I was anxious to see what I could do with the Mac and looking forward to creating some discs out of the footage that's been languishing in a drawer.
My very first task was to capture some video and I was surprised to see that during the capture, there was no on-screen preview.  Apparently I'm supposed to peer at the tiny LCD and try to use it for my clip caps.  I was really surprised and figured I'd missed a setting somewhere, and then I found this link:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS1c9bc5c2e465a58a91cf0b1038518aef7-7faaa .html
which in italics states that the Mac OS is apparently incapable of providing this function.  So I'm curious - why not?  It worked in Elements on my 7-year-old PC.  What's the deal?
Thanks in advance for the info,
G.

Oh well, no problem.  I'm relatively certain I had preview on cap in Elements on Windows.  But it's been a few months.
Anyway, how 'bout my second question:
"A second thing that I'm curious about:  why the heck does capture stop every time Premiere loses focus?  I can't even check an email while it's capturing because it instantly halts once it's not the focused window.  This behavior is particularly annoying."
Any way to modify this behavior?  I'd like to be able to do more than one thing at a time with my computer.
G.

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