Premiere CS4 timeline goes black - refresh problem?

Every time I try to edit in premiere pro CS4, after a while (or straight away) the timeline goes black. Everything around the clips (not including the clips) goes black and I can see anything on the timeline except the clips. If I move the timeline off the screen and back on it refreshes normally? This problem in intermittent by persistent. I have done all the updates for premiere and my graphics card.
My system is:
OS: Win7 64Bit
Intel core i7 920
6GB Ram
ATI HD5770 1GB GDDR5
C drive is 200GB SATA1
Thanks

Hi,
I had an almost identical problem.
Windows 7 64bit
Premiere Pro CS4 4.2.1
Cineform neoscene
Nvidia GT240 (latest driver 257.21)
Premiere pro would work fine until I loaded up internet explorer, then the timeline would go black as soon as I dragged a clip around. I needed to completely log out of windows to get the timeline visible again after moving a clip.
I switched to firefox, but that had the same effect.
However I then tried the seamonkey browser and premiere now works fine!
Hope this helps.
Kerrin

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