FCP X has Horrible Playback and Dropped Frames

I edit and still do in FCP 7 with HD footage on my small 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1067 MHZ DDR3 Ram iMac... and it does fine.
I would think FCP X would be the same? I have horrible playback, thousands of dropped frames, and I can't watch my video smoothly. ever.
And I'm having this trouble even after transcoding proxy media. In the system Prefs I've told the software to playback proxy, and not alert me when a frame drops... I thought these settings would help me edit faster and smoother... but I'm just being bogged down by dropped frames.
My media is stored on a Lacie 2TB via Firewire 800, and only iTunes and Safari are open.
Is there another step I can take to make the playback better? I know I have a small, but yet decent iMac, should I be having this issue? I thought 64 bit was going to make everything faster.
Thanks for the help y'all,
JS

Sounds like it might be a graphics card incompatibility problem. What specific graphic card does your iMac have? To check, go to "About this Mac" in the apple menu, click on "More Info" and then click on "Graphics/Displays" in the Contents pane.
Then you can check for compatibility using these two support articles:
Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, Compressor 4: Graphics card compatibility
Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, Compressor 4: Using OpenCL-enabled graphics cards

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