Poor Mac OS X Transcoding Performance? 12 Core Dual 2.9 GHZ

Is anyone else experiencing poor performance using Snow Leopard and a 12 Core Mac?
My activity monitor shows horrible stats during transcoding a DVD ... with no other applications running. ( like only one of the 24 hyperthreading cores being use )
This is ridiculous.
I spent as much as I could for the fastest Mac and still amazed that the software has not caught up to it .. especially the highly acclaimed Adobe Master Suite CS5 which was built to utilize all 12 cores of the Mac Pro ..
The Best + the Best = ???

Yep .. seems a lot better.
Currently I have turned off Multi-Threading in AE .. and the performance got much better.
Will update here soon.

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