FCP UB iMAC Dropping Frames, playing stops!

It's fine (new here with this program so be easy on me) also a recent swither, after beta testing Vista, I said, that's it. Even though I have thousands invested in software for PC...
Anyway, FCP 5.1
If I use the arrow tool, and move across timeline, the part plays fine with effects.
If I hit space bar I get error, it stops.
Media on second FW drive.
Not sure how to turn off/down compression?
RT set at unlimited, otherwise I wont see the effects.
What is wrong?
Thanks!

Render files are never seen or accessed by the user.
If you want to convert a bit of media, cut it into
your timeline, render it, export it using Export QuickTime Movie...
(keeping it on Current Settings...), import the clip
you created and use that for your source. No more
need to render.
make sense?
Patrick
Ok, I tried this, check it out...exported a 3 second clip, imported back in, no problem, played great!
Added one (as in "1") zoom effect and got a dropped frame rate warning, now, sure, I could turn it off, but surely there must be a way to see this FX in the chain to see how it works or not without an error (2 GB DDR2).
I noticed you can double click the FX than use the time line to see it, but it's a far cry from realtime speed.
Surely there is hope for me yet!
Thanks again

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