Jerky Playback Premiere CS4 and Win 7?

Hey
I tried scanning through a bunch of posts to see if anyone else was getting a similiar issue, but couldn't find an answer.
I recently just upgraded my system :
Windows 7 64bit
Adobe CS4 suite
i7 920 processor
Asus P6T SE mobo
6gigs of RAM
ATI Radeon 4800hd graphics card
250gig 7200rpm OS and Prog Drive
640gig video Drive
300gig Scratch Drive
Fresh Install, not an upgrade.
Did all the win 7 and premiere updates and the ATI updates.
My problem is I have loaded up a project that I originally edited in CS3 premiere, loaded it into CS4, let everything load and index.
My playback is pretty jerky. My new system is way faster then my last setup and yet it is running very very poor.
The footage in question is DV footage. shot on DVX100b (24pa) I made sure and checked that CS4 imported it into a proper sequence and everything seems to be lined up properlly.
Am I doing something wrong?
I checked some HDV footage that wasnt playing on my previous set up, which now playsback in a premiere timeline on current setup.
Are there any codecs that I should download? I dont want to rape the system with random codecs and crap.
any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Abes

Thanks everyone for pitching in. I didnt reply sooner because my deadline was
pressing hard. Finally managed to create output with CS4
. Also found that the reason my old PP1.5 was crashing was because I was trying to load a project that had already been saved out by me in CS4 What an idiot LOL I put it down to pressure.
But, on to the meat of the issue. First, in answer to an earlier question, yes once i have rendered a preview my monitor scrubs and plays properly however, Its totaly counter intuative to the way one edits a movie. the whole pre-rendering twaddle interferes with the creative process in my opinion. In PP1.5 even if sometimes a little scratchy a simple cross or additive dissolve would preview perfectly fine. This meant that the software didnt encroach upon what should be a transparent to the editor process. I come from 16 and 35mm film and video as a background and of course this stuff has come a long way since then, Im talking 1969 by the way.
But surely in so many ways PP CS4 is almost a monster step backwards.
If basic footage needs pre-rendering to work well in the time line, why isnt that an option at import time ? Then at least dissolves and the like would be the only thing the processors need to worry about if the basic image blitting to screen has been taken care of by what I imagine is some kind of proxy.
OK thats my 4 penneth as they say in my mother blighty.
regards Paul C Buckland

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