Netflix streaming movies hesitates every 1 to 2 seconds

I have been trying to watch movies on my desktop PC. I find that movies streamed through Netflix hesitate with the picture about a second every other second. The sound is fine. I do have an older PC but have a DSL line.
I have a little more then 1 gig ram. Could the slow RAM be the cause?

Laura is a she and that is the computer owner and primary user I am actually Mark 'the' husband just using her id trying to debug this 'thing'.
So thanks for the continued suggestions. I can't get the machine to boot from the CD to be able to run the utilities on the tiger CD. I tried holding the 'C' while booting and also tried option-command-shift-delete with no success to boot from the CD..
I will check try the syslog suggestion and see if I see anything.
Please keep any and all suggestions coming
Message was edited by: Laura Bauer

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