Premier Pro CS4, Am I expecting too much from my system

I am editing a project that contains video from a live concert: 4 camera, hd, wide screen P2 files. MXF files. Anyhow, I've had better luck editing on my
laptop i5 with 4 gigs of memory and an esata drive than on my desktop system outlined at the end of this message:
I am using multi-camera mode to make my cuts. In multicamera it is jittery and eventually stops. If I play the timeline in the program monitor (not blown up) it works and plays the video with no problems. If I play it in full screen, it's jittery.
I've been a PC guy for a long time but I've actually considered buying a mac pro and going final cut because I've spent days trying to debug this. Big investment! Any thoughts?
I've experimented with putting the cache, scratch files, and project files on different disks with no better results.
My virtual disk is currently 500gig, or 50000MB (I think I calculated that correct.) Anyhow, the minimum size number I input is 50000, and the largest size is the same.
I have 6 gigs of memory.
HELP!
My system:
Windows 7 Professional (x64)
2.67 gigahertz Intel Core i7 920
32 kilobyte primary memory cache
Motherboard
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P6T DELUXE V2 Rev 1.xx
3 drives, 1 tb each, system and one other drive on raid 0
3rd drive is non-raid.
All drives are 7200
Raw Media is on non-raid disk.
Memory
6136 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 2048 MB (serial number SerNum00)
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 2048 MB (serial number SerNum02)
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM4' has 2048 MB (serial number SerNum04)
Slot 'DIMM5' is Empty
Display
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.1) [Display adapter]
Samsung SyncMaster [Monitor] (19.9"vis, s/n H9LSA14300, October 2009)

I'm trying to figure out how to give you a screen shot of my taks manager. But, in the meantime, can you look at the following?
Okay, Each time I move the scratch files, I get results. Not the most optimal results but I think that this might be the key to get me going. Here's my setup:
3 1 TB drives
C: Windows and premier Pro
E: This is an empty disk that I can use that is raid 0 with C:
F: Contains my raw video files, Non-raid
Consider the following and note my questions (WHERE....?) with relation to my setup above.
In Premier Pro
   Edit->Preferences->Media
       Media Cache Files   (WHERE SHOULD I PUT THESE?)
       Media Cache Database (WHERE SHOULD I PUT THESE)
   Project->Scratch Disks
       Captured Video (WHERE SHOULD I PUT THESE?)
       Captured Audio (WHERE SHOULD I PUT THESE?)
       Video Previews (WHERE?)
       Audio Previews (WHERE?)
Thanks for the help!
Tim

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*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
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