IMovie 09 - How do I speed up the browser?

I believed the Apple hype that iMovie is the like iPhoto for your vidoes, essentially a database to organize video clips. Having believed the hype, I ingested almost 5 years of family vacation and other event video into iMovie 08. The video filled up 1 TB drive and about 500GB on a second 1TB drive.
I found that browsing through my videos was painfully slow. Sometimes it took about 5 minutes for the previews to switch. I'm running this on a MacPro 8-core with 12GB RAM and 4 1TB internal drives. I have an external eSata tower with 5 x 1TB drives in JBOD format connected via a eSata port multiplier card in my 8X PCIe slot.
This past week I upgraded to iLife 09. iMovie 09 is definitely quicker on the previews, but it still takes a while to switch to different clips.
I was curious how I can speed up the video preview process. Any suggestions?
Also, if I would use FCE, would that be faster for previewing videos? What to pros do with a lot more video to sort through than me?
Thanks.
Bud James

I can't suggest why your imovie is slow. Mine isn't, I have roughly the same mac as you with much less RAM. I have more video than you and I keep mine on external FW drives. If anything mine should be slower than yours.

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