Dropped frames message help...

Hello, I'm cutting using with fcp 5.4 on a power pc, g-5 w/4gb of ram and using a WEstern Digital 1tb external hard drive for editing. I'm getting constant dropped frames message everytime I try to stack clips, I've lowered all of the resolution and frame rate settings to the lowest and still drops the framses.. any suggestions would be most helpful. also, I'm editing 1080 60i HD footage, all of the settings are matched up in the easy set up, I am also using photos in the timeline too.
Thanks so much for any help!!

Hi David, thanks for your reply.
-codec is converted from .mts files into DVCPRO HD 1080 60i Integer Bid Endian
WD drive is connected externally using usb 2.0 (firewire port is not working anymore)
-Footage was shot in 1080 60i AVCHD, then converted to apple intermediate, then converted again to DVCPRO HD 10801 using Mpeg streamclip (fcp 5 would only work with the Dvcpro hd.
-I Don't have a large enough internal drive but maybe that would work better?
Thanks again!

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