Jerky video - slow responses using Premiere Elements 9

I just bought a new laptop (desktop) replacement, specifically to create videos on DVD. I am using video footage that was originally in the AVCHD format but were converted to MP4's.
All videos appear fine on the workspace. But when dragging the clips to the timeline or placing the cursor for doing a cut or edit there is significant lag time for the action to occur. In addition, when playing the clips along the timeline there is hesitation and jerkiness of the video. This makes no sense especially in light of the fact that the system I purchased is a powerhouse.
It is an ASUS 17" laptop with an Intel i7 quad core processor. 16gig of ram on board with a nvidia graphics processor with 2 gigs of dedicated ram. There are two hard drives inside with on dedicated to the project and it's associated video clips.
I boot fresh and start Premiere Elements 9 and begin the project. Loading the project takes about 3-5 minutes which I find astoundingly slow.
I also don't have any other programs running other than the basic processes to make windows run etc.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I'm quite disappointed in the way Adobe is operating. I had hoped that going from a 4g ram, dual core Dell to this beast would have made a major difference. In fact, it really hasn't. Kevin
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Kevin

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I would agree with Ann Bens, that your machine is underpowered for HD tasks. But, you might be able to handle short term HD projects as well as SD projects with tight control over resources, detouring scratch disks et al to an external hard drive for one aspect of the computer resources issues of available RAM and free hard drive space.
Then we should not forget the usual drill of is your video card driver up to date according to the web site of the video card manufacturer?
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And, we should rule in or out whether the project is set up correctly, that is, what project preset is being selected and does it match the properties of the source media??
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Mike
This is not Adobe. Rather user to user. We are all visitors here.
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Welcome to the forum.
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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:24:11 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: want to use Premiere Elements 4 or newer with Windows Vista 64 bit??
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If you download the patch, you can run version 3 on Vista.
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc2fd1f
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