Premiere CC playback busted.

So, yeah, I downloaded CC to my shiny massive and expensive iMac and everything is staring at me all bright eyed and bushy tailed, showing me content shot with the Nikon D7000, and the most basic expectation won't work - no playback. I can scrub through it at a zillion frames a second no problem, but it won't play when I tenderly tickle the space bar. Photoshop, Bridge, Illustrator, Lightroom, all well-served soldiers in my digital battles.
I thought, wow, they all must be a bad files. So I tried iMovie. You have any idea how much I hate iMovie? But it works. Works great, just like FCP used to.
I've dug through the forums and seen the comments and I don't see anything resembling a mea culpa, which is what I think we're due, from Adobe.
Yes my system is up to par with your requirements. Yes I rendered a file to see if that would work. Yes I shut down every other program begging my machine's attention.
Please tell me there's a simple Adobe setting I need entertain to get your tool to deliver it's most primary function. Play.
Thank you.

External audio, of course. I just started Premiere and haven't touched the preferences.

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