Playback on MAC w/PP CS4

Ok I posted this a while back and got a lot of responses of "well you should be able to" so I need to see if anyone else has a solution for this issue so I don't try to recreate the wheel.
I use a MAC PRO with Adobe CS4 on the Mac OS. My system has two screens that hold the work area. I need to play back to a 32" Sony by either HDMI or component or whatever. Is there someone out there with this set up who is successfully doing this playback. Thanks!!

Try using Pr's Media Browser and import the clips from a location that has the original folder structure intact.
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-Mac Pro 5,1
--2 x 2.93 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon
--14 GB 1333 MHz DDR3(all tested OK)
--ATI Radeon HD 5770 (also tested with a new nVidia card as well)
--(Internal) Operating System Hard Drive - 250GB 7200 RPM
--(Internal) Project File Storage - 1TB 7200 RPM
--(Internal) Preview File Storage - 500GB 7200 RPM
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--QuickTime 7 Pro v7.6.6 (1710)
---QuickTime Version 7.6.6 (1756)
--Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 v4.2.1 (003 (MC: 166418))
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--Display Format: Audio Samples
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--Maximum Render Quality (Unchecked)
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---Bitrate Encoding: VBR, 1 Pass -> VBR, 2 Pass
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