Final Cut Drops frames intermittently

Hi all-
okay, heres my situation- In different fcp projects, I get dropped frames on the playback of my DVPAL, 16:9 sequence. I have captured this video directly from my camera in that format, onto my fw800 drive that is my scratch disk for capture, render etc. The dropped frames are occuring on things like text, a little bit of rendered material, between rendered material and just a simple fade in of another clip, cross dissolves, particularly (but not always) between video and free frames. The most worrying incident was a dropped frame within just a slide show of freeze frames taken straight from my dv video.
Have tried updating to 5.1.4 from 5.1. (Also 5.1.2 a few weeks ago)
Reformatting the FW800 drive and starting again
actually replaceing the drive inside the fw800 chassis which has an oxford 922 chip
reformatting the internal hdd of the laptop and reinstalling mac osx and fcp from scratch
it is osx 10.4.8 with qt 7.1.3
Ran a benchmarking tool with xbench and found my fw800 drive to have much faster access than my fw400 on my desktop system. To prove speed of fw800 drive i have had it play 8 videos at once in a single fcp sequence without render and it did not stutter.
have ran Activity monitor and hardware test
sooooo.....why should I be getting these random dropped frames, and how can I stop them?

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