Does *anyone* get smooth .wmv playback on their Mac?

I have a Powerbook G4 running 10.4.10.
I have Quicktime 7.1.3.
I have a Quicktime plug-in that plays .wmv clips. (Flip4Mac)
I have numerous short clips in .wmv format, anywhere from a 1 meg to 15 megs.
It seems the smaller files seem to play a little better, but still not perfectly.
The larger files...forget it...I see one frame every three seconds. That frame freezes until three seconds later another frame comes up. This is especially the case when the larger clips are HD.
I received the advice to go to window > show movie properties > other settings > preload this track into memory. It had no effect whatsoever. Still a jumpy and unusable picture.
Is anyone getting quality playback that can offer the secrets of using Quicktime as a smooth movie playback device instead of what looks like a slide-viewer?

I took your advice, Topotone, and opened up my activity monitor. I don't know what kind of numbers I'm supposed to be seeing, but it looks like nothing surprising is showing up. My Firefox browser uses up the overwhelming percentage of processor speed, followed by the activity monitor itself. Then there's a long list of things that use up pretty tiny numbers.
Everything has gotten slow on my Powerbook. These days, if I try to take a screen shot, I hear hard drive noises for over ten seconds before the photo clicks! Simple streaming like a news media viewer starts and stops every few seconds. (That's even after I've allowed the whole video to load using the pause button.)
I'd love to know what I've installed or what setting I've set that is slowing me down so badly.

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