Premiere Elements 9 choppy playback if there is a title

I never experienced this before on PE 8 and PE 7.
On the playback area when editing, the movie gets choppy and laggy when there are titles/texts on the frames. I'm not sure why, though. The published video is okay, only the playback on the software. Does it matter what movie types, settings, etc? I thought it's just weird that it only happens when there is an overlaying text/title
Watch my video on YouTube to see the problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHs5V1Qg4T4
First part is smooth but get choppy when I have the text. Then it's smooth again after the text is no more

Hi Neale,
Yes there is a long red line and doing what you suggested certainly helps. Although it still takes a while and if I make changes over the frames under the now green line, the line turns red again and I have to pre-render again to view it. It's a bit annoying :[
Does this happen to you in PE 9 too?I just bought a quad core system with 4 GB DDR3 (previous computer, a dual core, was running fine with PE7 and PE8 without doing the pre-render) so I'm sure it has enough grunt
Is there a setting or incompatibility issue perhaps? It's fine with unboxing videos but if I want to recompile and edit my other videos, it'll be a nightmare with the choppy playback

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    APK
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    Boomps, I installed from here and it worked fine:     http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/kb/installing-smartsound.html There are even step-by-step instructions.  Good luck.
    Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 04:46:21 -0700
    From: [email protected]
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: "No Disk" Error (premiere elements 11)
        Re: "No Disk" Error (premiere elements 11)
        created by BoompsXXX in Premiere Elements - View the full discussion
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