FCP Studio3, already RT problems?

Hi,
I am working on an absolutely brand new macbook pro, 2.8ghz 4gb ram model. Ever since the first day of operation Final Cut seems to be giving me major problems when trying to play back very simple video sequences. For example, i import a range of 1080 50i hdv footage into the appropriate bins on the left (the sequence settings are all correct), drag it into the time line to start editing, it plays fine. I add just one more layer of video, either a layer of text or one simple filter and it just stops and gives me the familiar "FRAMES DROPPED" message, cannot play RT bla bla.
I have altered all the appropriate things that i can from the help section of "things that may slow or alter the ability to play back in RT". I have changed the frame rate to dynamic, medium etc. i have tried to lower all playback options to optimise speed, but yet it STILL stops playing the sequence and gives me the RT/dropped frames message. I thought maybe its because I was editing some footage from an external harddrive that this had something to do with not being able to keep up, but i have eliminated this after transferring the footage to my internal drive and still having the same, really annoying issue.
The reason this makes no sense to me and shocks me IS that I was previously working at another place just weeks ago where the imac's and macbooks were of less grunt but could handle editing multiple layers of video (with several filters), audio and text altogether no probs. Why will FCP all of a sudden, for me, not even handle 1 layer of video with 1 layer of text? This computers specs are by far way more better than the ones i was previously using. Does something need reinstalling, or is FCP not accessing the RAM properly or something? It feels like there is no RAM and no processing power.
Any help or explanation appreciated greatly!

fowler123 wrote:
The external Drive was a 1TB (with plenty of room), although it was USB connection, dont know the rpm sorry. Will FW800 change things considerably? Maybe its a case of FCS 3 being a bit more intensive than FCS2?
At previous places, all media was saved on to external FW Drives and we worked completely from them. Although they were older Imacs so they only had a FW400 port so the drives were transferring at that speed.
USB is your issue. Use FW. If you can get FW 800 drives, so much the better. There will be a time when the FW will hit too much on transfer, but will beat USB. USB really is pretty limited on the Mac, okay for some things. Small files, pen drives, transferring files from a compact card reader. But video, nope.
EDII: Whoops see David also responded when I was typing (got a phone call and stepped away in the middle of replying)
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