Jerky Playback of iTunes purchased TV Shows (specifically: HEROES)

Not yet another jerky/playback thread?
Well, I feel compelled to do so since I have reviewed all of the jerky/playback threads that I could find and I have tried most, if not all, of the suggestions. Namely:
1. This thread: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303706
2. Uninstalled Quicktime and reinstalled (ver. 7.1.6)
3. Setting "waveout" for audio.
4. Tried several bit settings for audio (16, 24) along with sampling rates (44000, 48000).
5. Tried two different versions of NVidia Forceware (ver 97.46, ver 158.18)
6. Two different sets of drivers for SATA
The thing that gets me is, I've been watching HEROES all season without incident. In fact, I preferred purchasing each episode and watching it in iTunes as opposed to watching the episodes in my BeyondTV DVR (computer based). One has to conclude that SOMETHING on the system has shifted to affect this change (within the last week), although I'm out of ideas beyond the 6 listed above. I'm tempted to boot into my XP partition to see if everything is fine over there but that would mean I would have to go through the as-of-yet-unfamiliar-to-me process of deauthorizing this "computer" and hoping that my purchases shows re-download. I did this once and I lost the first 6 episodes of Heroes and even "redownloading purchased" media did not bring them back. That's a separate issue that I need to contact Apple about.
So...any ideas? Any information that I'm lacking here to help troubleshoot?

Update:
I booted over into Windows XP (SP2) and everything is fine over there. So, that leads me to the strong inclination that there is something up with the configuration on this side of the divide (Windows Vista 32-bit).
I'm now beginning to suspect some recent tweaks that were made via the nTune application. For those that don't know, nTune is a utility that allows tweaking of nVidia hardware (nForce, n4 - mobo, PCI bus, SATA, video, etc.) What I'm currently trying to research is getting the automatic tweaks that I enabled to rollback to their default settings. So far, I haven't figured out how to do this. There is an option to load a "baseline" profile from within nTune's menu however the behaviors that I noticed post-tweak are still there (difficult to explain but there are indicators that the new settings are still in effect).
I'll post back here if I am successful in rolling back the nTune tweaks and see if that makes any difference with the video playback problems I am experiencing.

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