Disk Limit Alert In Soundtrack Pro...

My specs:
i-Mac G5
2 Ghz
20"
2 GB RAM
160GB HD - 70GB Availible
Soundtrack Pro
Good Day All... Maybe you can help me please. I am running into my hard drive not keeping up with streaming my sound clips. I have a moive I opened up in Soundtrack and the movie is 18 mins long. I have three tracks. The audio from the movie. A mertonome click track. A Piano track. A strings track. The audio from the movie and the mertome click track run throughout the entire 18mins.
The piano track and the string tracks shift back and forth through the whole movie.
My problem is... when I play back the movie... the audio hangs and I get the "Disk Limit Alert In Soundtrack Pro..." I am not running any other programs and my computer is choking up on only a few tracks! Is there anyway to help this situation out? One post online mention trying to sperate the audio into different programs??? How do I do that is that is the way to go? Is there a better way?
HELP PLEASE!
Thanks,
Ron

Seeing the same thing. Maybe it has something to do with having a G5 Quad. Besides things as my tempo value slider should be somewhere but is nowhere to be seen.
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