Newbie has constant frame drops slowing capturing

I don't even know IMovieHD, so don't ask me why I bought FCEHD 3.5
Having said that dislaimer, I finally figured out how to capture footage from the HD tape off my FX1 HD videocam. However after starting up and using the capture window, it only records 2-5 seconds, then stops, says a frame dropped, then I have to press capture all over again....and basically I would die of natural causes before it ever captured the four 60 minute tapes I need to import into a new prject.
I had no problems capturing all the footage in iMovieHD without stopping for anything other than changing tapes in the camera.
There's gotta be some user group in Los Angeles area where newbies mingle with others so I could ask bonehead question withotu the entire planet knowing I'm a FCE moron.
But any ideas on resolving this dropped frame thing that is making capturing footage of decent length more or less impossible?

The settings are the defualt setting on FCE 3.5 with the exception that stop upon frame drop is now deselted, and the camera is just hooked up via the firewire to the back of the CPU...there aren't any settings on the videocam related to transferring the tape as far as I know....
I am going to get a 300 Gig Seagate Barracuda internal SATA drive that has a 16mb cache. Hopefully there aren't issues installing it internally on my Mac. They look like they are about $160 including the connector. I will use that as my scratch drive then and see if the frame drop stops. Funny how that doesn't happen in iMovieHd though...
At least now thanks to you guys the videocapture progress doesn't stop upon frame drop due to deselecting stop upon drop.

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Are you using Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration? Yes. I have turned off the "enable graphics switching" in the power section. I have tried all 3, software, CUDA and OpenCL, usually leaving it on CUDA.
CUDA Drivers? CUDA Driver Version: 5.0.59, no newer update is available
GPU Driver Version? 8.10.44 304.10.65f03
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