Final Cut Pro -- Preview window drops frames

this is quite annoying, basically the preview window drops frames and is quite slow? It seems the program window is unaffected. I have my local drive as the source drive and an external firewire drive as the scratch disk... Any further thoughts?
IMAC 20" 2.16 Core 2 Duo
1GB Ram

If you are talking about the Canvas and Viewer windows... make sure that their size is set at FIT TO WINDOW Top left button in the viewer and canvas window.
If you are talking about something else, please give us some more details.
rh

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