Premiere CS6 not playing Cineform files

I'm having some problems in a cineform based project. I am just using stock Premiere CS6 and have Cineform Studio premium installed. I use a 2008 mac Pro, 24gb RAM, stock cheapest nvidia card (not CUDA compatible), with Lion installed. I think that my sequence settings are set to DSLR quality matching the resolution of the cineform files. There is a chance that they are Desktop sequences though. I started this project a while back on CS5 and made my sequences there.
The problem is that 2 out of 3 times that I open Premiere, the timeline clip thumbnails dont draw and when I playback the program monitor is black. Audio is playing back ok, but the cineform clips on the timeline dont work. If I try to open a clip in the source monitor, it updates the file in the project bin to show "Media offline". The media is definitely there and in the Premiere is linking to. If I try to close Premiere after experiencing the above it won't close and I have to force close it. Only a system reboot will make Premiere open correctly after that.
There are times when the project opens just fine though. I can't see a pattern. If it were a Cineform problem then I wouldnt expect Premiere to be crashing like it is. That is why I am reporting it here.

My apologies ODANO. I admire you wanting to help others out   
I spent an hour on the phone trouble shooting this problem with the programmers about 8 months ago. They assured me they would fix it and get back in touch with me. They never fixed it and never got back in touch with me. I had to contact them and complain about the problem a second time 8 moths later  and they just have ignored the situation completely. They are a very amateur operation which has now been absorbed into Go Pro. I advise any serious professionals to avoid Cineform and use DNxHD.
My frustration with Cineform in no way reflects upon you. Have a good day 
Early Mac Pro 2008 3,1
2 - 3. 4 Xeons
24 GB ram
Quadro 4000
Maxx Digital raid array (750MB/sec.)
Lion 10.7.4   

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