Games in Boot Camp smooth VERSUS games in OS X choppy

Hey.
I have a Late 2008 Macbook Pro, mid-range model. I have Call of Duty 4 for both Mac OS X, and Windows XP through Boot Camp. I have all the proper drivers installed on Windows.
When I run CoD4 on Mac OS X, the framerate is choppy even on the lowest graphics settings. On the higher graphics settings, forget about it. I have the high-end graphics card enabled.
When I run CoD4 on Windows XP, you would think I was playing an Xbox 360. On the highest settings, the game runs at at maybe 40fps, smooth as butter.
Why is this the case? Is it the quality of the Call of Duty 4 port itself that causes the game to run poorly? Is it a driver issue?
(I have also tested other games on Windows XP, and they all without exception ran amazingly fast. Gears of War and Bioshock, both on highest settings, ran almost perfectly.)

Ok, I thought my Uni MBP was defective, because I have the same problem with CoD4. The game is choppy, and forget playing at high rez. I had the better performance on.
According to CoD4 ingame optimizer, the optimal setting for my spec should be 1024x768 rez. And even then, it would get choppy, especially during graphic heavy scene. The weird thing is, when I minimize the game to check the CPU usage via istat, cpu isnt maxed out at all (around 70% per core).
I was reading some posts on Macrumors, and other people have the same problem with not just CoD, but with Spore and WoW. On the other hand, some people say they can play CoD4 at high rez with most settings turned on and still get 40+ fps.
I ran hardware test last night and it didnt find anything wrong (which it also did ram test).
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