Layer markers seem to be placed late

It seems that in AE CS3, the layer markers you place live (during a preview) using the '*' key are placed about a second or so late from where they should be. Anyone else notice that?
They worked fine in my previous version (AE7).

I haven't tried the "disable 3rd party drivers" yet (I do have a Intellipoint installed for a Microsoft mouse...) but let me ask this...
First - a correction. When I maxed out the Buffer the audio DID play but when I dropped down markers they went down even FURTHER away from when I wanted them. So my rationale was to make the buffer SMALLER since LARGER increased the gap / discrepancy.
But get this - I found a different machine also running CS4 on a Mac where a) there was no "Default" Buffer Size button and b) the setting was 512, not the 2048 that I have ... and the markers worked perfectly there. So why doesn't any value beneath 2048 work for me? Why is playback all stuttery?
I think the answer lies somewhere in that - that if I set it to SMALLER - 512 - the timing would be perfect too - but smaller doesn't play for me. Does anything less than the Default 2048 work for anyone running Windows Vista? Again - this worked for me on older versions of After Effects and older / slower machines, so I don't know why it's having so my trouble.
Will give the drivers angle a shot tonight.
Marc

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First, thank you for taking the time to solve this.
I feel like a handicapped... and I am when it comes to scripting. (I'm not really a handicapped person (not that there's anything wrong with that))
It has been now over two hours of tweaking and replacing values...no go.
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