Performance in CS4 worse than previous versions

I use Premiere 2.0 at work and love the stability and smoothness of the editing workflow. Don't get me wrong there are a few hiccups here and there, but what software does not have that? I use CS4 at home on my core i7 920 6 gigs of ram geforce 285 WD raid 0 setup. CS4 playback is ok but the editing workflow can be very sluggish. I know that this performance issue has been reported by many, but there does not seem to be a clear explanation for it. The computer system always gets the blame, but when a previous release of premiere runs perfectly fine on a slower system and the newer CS4 runs worse on a bigger, faster system, it does not make any sense. I know that some things have been rewritten in the software, but why such a drastic change in performance? I have been using premiere for years, but this sure is a good way for adobe to push its customers to look at other NLEs.

Jim,
I have not compared it to previous versions, but CS4 4.1 on playback from the timeline of a HDV project shows this CPU load:
This is while having numerous processes open (as you can see from the 73 ones active).

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> :: im inserting FLV videos into a page - i do an F12 to
preview in my test
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accross...
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> Hi peeps.
>
> i have to say over the last few years this product has
been getting more
> and
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>
> 4 examples (cant think of more off the top of my head):
>
> :: im inserting FLV videos into a page - i do an F12 to
preview in my test
> environment (using php). FLV simply are not transferred
accross... this
> means i
> have to keep copy/pasting into the design environment...
wtf!
>
> :: i cannot FTP files over about 7Mb to live sites. all
i get it
> connection
> lost. yet, when i use a FREE ftp client like cute, i
have no problems. i
> have
> tried all configs to get out. why is the limit at ~7Mb??
>
> :: i can design a really nice, although complex CSS
layout that works
> flawlessly in IE, FF, opera etc. yet looks like crap in
the designer. why
> cant
> it render proper CSS layouts???
>
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the project various
> PHP
> elements and includes stop showing. meaning its almost
useless to see and
> design view. i might as well use notepad or something
else that can do
> code
> colouring.... which also isnt perfect as comments in PHP
sometimes
> mis-colour.
>
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> i
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