Movie Playback Bug?

I play back video through an external firewire box,
the Canopus ADVC-100. In Logic 8, there is a small
movie display window in the upper left-hand corner
of the Arrange page. If you click on the carrot and
open that window, it shows a very small version of
the video, and your firewire output goes away. If
you close the small window, the firewire output
does not return, and you have to reopen the movie.
Anyone else experience this?

Is there anyway to have the signal being sent via firewire and to view the movie in a window on the main monitor? At the moment it looks like its one or the other but in my setup, the firewire/dv footage is being sent to a vocal booth so its not viewable in the studio whilst recording...
Is there way around this at all?

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