PPro CS 5.5 and Kona LHi Card on Mac

Hi all,
After a couple of years on FCP it looks like we're switching back to  PPro. I have a Kona LHi card on my MacPro 4.1, (2009) an NVidia GTX285  card and 16GB RAM. I have the latest 9.0.1 Drivers and am using the  latest AJA Adobe utilities.
I have major lagging issues within PPro 5.5 just moving clips around on  the timeline. My audio is very laggy and drops out on occasion, my video  is laggy and jittery when scrubbing the timeline and PPro's general  responsiveness is woeful and virtually unusable.
Am I missing something here? Is this a problem with the LHi card on the  Mac or is it something to do with the AJA Adobe utilities or the GTX285 card? I am at a  loss.
Any help or knowledge would be deeply appreciated.
TIA,
Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

Hi Alex,
Good to see you post this.  I have the *exact same situation and hardware as you (same Kona board, graphics card, MacPro 4,1, etc...) - and I have been having many problems as well.  Was excited to switch over to PPro from FCP (and I'm sure this is going to happen much more frequently now that FCPx is a bust) and had heard of all the speed improvements.  But I have had trouble with sluggish timelines (dragging clips around in the timeline lags far behind the cursor) , sluggish editing, dropping audio from the Kona card during cuts.  I am about to have some more conversations with AJA about this and also keep searching out clues here on the forums.
My question to you:  what kind of footage are you editing that gives you issues?  For me, it is H.264 coming from my Canon 5D.  Is it happening with all different kinds of codecs and footage?  Can you be a little more specific about the issues? (ie when do you experience the sluggishness and the audio dropouts?  Does it happen if you disable the Kona player and just use the Adobe player instead?)
I can post more of my findings as I get more time.  Hopefully we can track this down.
Thanks,
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