New Workstation Yielding Poor Performance . . . What's Wrong?

My new workstation is performing much worse than expected in the PPBM5 test as compared to other computers with the same or very similar components (i7-930 no O.C., 24GM RAM, P6X58D Premium motherboard, EVGA GTX 470 graphics card and PremPro 5.0.2).
The total time and performance index are much slower than anticipated
The MPE ON rendering is dramatically underperforming compared to MPE OFF.
The cropped test results from Sept 27 are shown below. Computers with similar components to mine (DM_3) have red lines under them. It it particularly interesting to note that several other computers with MPE are also under performing.
This was the best test result of those I ran. In some others, the computer was set for "Best Performance" and all un-needed programs turned off and yet the results were a bit worse than those in which I had not made such changes.
The machine was assembled by an apparently competent computer service professional who does video editing himself. He made sure the latest drivers were downloaded and installed.
I have a four hard drive, no RAID system installed; C:\ OS & Programs, E:\ Media & Projects, F:\ Media Cache and G:\ Previews & Exports.
For the PPBM5 test shown above, the project file was located on the E:\ drive and the scratch fiels were set to "Same as Project", the Preferences were set for Media Cache files on the F:\ drive. In other tests I changed the locations of the scratch files but saw no visual evidence of improvement and the Statistics.vbs file would not function.
I even ran the test with the Capture Format, in Project Settings, set to HDV instead of DV as the test Readme file shows. The results of this test showed a wider gap in performance with the MPE but it was still only a 3 X improvent over Software Only.
Something is amiss and I am at a loss to understand what. Any suggestions?

Bill -
Thank you!
Creating a second user account did the trick. It also allowed me to see what I had done to reduce the effectiveness of Premiere Pro in the first place. I mistakenly added Microsoft Office and a couple of other programs to the new workstation in the belief that if I did not have them open when I used Premiere Pro their presence would not impact the program. Wrong!
I set up the new account on the workstation with only those Adobe programs on the taskbar which I would use in conjunction with Premiere Pro. When I re-ran the PPBM5 test yet again the resutls were far better:
MPE ON: 130, 45, 95, 12 for a total of 282
MPE OFF: 130, 45, 95, 126 for a total of 396
Interestingly, when the computer service professional set up the workstation for me, we went through Harm's Guide, referred to above, step by step and the pro said that much of it could be ignored as unnecessary. Clearly,his unfamiliarity with Premiere Pro coupled with my own technical shortcomings were the source of the problem. I suspect that as I uninstall those programs on the workstation not specifically needed to utilize Premiere Pro, the performance will be even better.

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