Dropped frames and Spinning ball no matter what...

Hello,
After many months of flawless performance since the FCP 7 upgrade, FCP has decided to drop frames and give me the beach ball of death when editing anything: SD, HD and audio.
I am working off of an external G-Raid HD. I've connected via both FW800 and eSATA w/ the same above results.
Here's what I've done:
-Trashed Preferences
-Repaired permissions on external drive
-Run Disk Warrior on external drive
-Run Disk Warrior on boot drive
-Uninstalled FCP w/ FCS Remover and Re-installed FCP (not the whole suite just FCP)
-Moved project to internal drive
After all of the above I am still having the same problems.
Any insight?
thanks,
-B

Thanks for the response, I should have been more clear:
"Did you move both the project and the associated media files to a discrete, dedicated internal SATA drive, and also trashed all the render files?"
Yes, but I didn't trash the render files I'll do that. Unfortunately I don't think it will help because I forgot to mention that this happens w/ different projects on different external HDs.
"What are the sequence settings for that project?"
I've experienced this w/ a project editing XDCAM footage & a project editing DV footage. Both projects live on different external drives.
"And what does it consist of, ie video, stills, etc?"
Video, stills, music and text. No special treatments (drop shadow, movement, etc) a pretty basic timeline.
thanks,
-B

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