Playback in Viewer (NOT CANVAS!) halts every second or so...

This is annoying. I have been using FCE for a couple of years, and have never seen this to be an issue. I just updated to Universal, and it is broken.
While waiting for a Universal version of FCE, I went back to using the latest iMovie to do some small video projects, knowing that FCE had in the past had no difficulty opening and importing iMovie projects. Well, this seems no longer to be the case. Although the import works flawlessly, there is a serious problem with playback of iMovie captured video in the Viewer window. It pauses ever second or two, with the audio continuing. I have experimented with choosing different video playback qualities, to no avail. The weird thing is that once this stuff is put into the timeline and played back in the canvas, it plays just fine...
I am wondering if this is related to the audio portion of the iMovie video, as it seems that when audio is rendered or is missing in the Canvas, the video plays back just fine.
I am a bit disturbed that this problem seems to have been encountered back in January or February of this year, and yet I purchase the software six months later and the problem is still there. Any solutions to this?

Hi Tom:
Thanks for your continued help and patience with this. Searching back in the archives, others are reporting the same thing, including the SAME data rate numbers that I am getting, There is something strange going on....
Ok, I just drilled into the iMovie package, found a media file, and opened it in QuickTime. From QuickTime, I see that the format is DV 720x480 (640 x 480) Millions, DV, Stereo 48.000 kHz and 29.97 fps. The Data rate is 57.55 mbits / second.
When I open an iMovie file in FCE, and select the SAME clip, everything is the same, except the data rate is shown to be 6.9 MBYTES per second. I am not sure why this is the value... multiplying it out by 8 bits/byte I don't get what QuickTime reports the data rate as being.
Everything else is the same... Although I am a bit confused as to the sample size of the audio being 32 bit here...

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The files come from mustly After Effect or 3DS Max.
It's HD, 1280x720, 25 i/s. Quick Time export, Codec Animation.
I use to do that for the last couple of year, a lot more last year and never have problems.
I precise still, juste in case, than all the rest of CS4 works fine. I am even surprise how fast and precise is Photoshop with the HD screen and the wacom tablet. So Open GL do is job pretty good. Just the playback in Premiere repeat one image every one seconde around.
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Jul 31 13:27:06 xserve01 kernel[0]: AppleKCS::waitForIBF timed out!
Jul 31 13:27:36: --- last message repeated 4 times ---
Jul 31 13:27:40 xserve01 kernel[0]: AppleKCS::waitForIBF timed out!
Jul 31 13:28:10: --- last message repeated 4 times ---
Jul 31 13:28:15 xserve01 kernel[0]: AppleKCS::waitForIBF timed out!
Jul 31 13:28:45: --- last message repeated 4 times ---
Jul 31 13:28:49 xserve01 kernel[0]: AppleKCS::waitForIBF timed out!
Jul 31 13:29:19: --- last message repeated 4 times ---
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Jul 31 13:29:53: --- last message repeated 4 times ---
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Jul 31 13:30:32 xserve01 com.apple.launchd[250] ([0x0-0x27027].com.apple.servermonitor[2006]): Exited: Killed
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