Premiere Pro cs3 performance slow

Hello, I tried checking various places for this answer but could not find the answer, so apologies if this can be answered somewhere else.
I use Premiere Pro CS3 (I have the suite).  When I start to work on a project, all is well.  When I get to about the fifteen minute or twenty minute mark in terms of footage that is on the time line (perhaps just one or two video tracks and then a title or two on tracks three and four), then Premiere behaves very sluggishly.  When opening the project, it takes a fairly long time (about two minutes) to open.  Playback always stutters, no matter what.  If I select "File" or "Edit" on the top bar, I might have to wait a few seconds, or longer, for the drop-down items to appear.  If I dare to do something like add color correction to a shot, or some other effect, Premiere is even more sluggish.  I used to use Premiere 6.1 for years and never had a problem -- even did a massive production with enormous number of SFX, green screen, etc...no problem.  My system smoked.  I have a great system now (see below).  Now I do a project in CS3 and am so very careful not to get near the 30 minute mark (otherwise very slow performance) and even then I feel very limited in terms of what I can dare do, lest CS3 crashes altogether. And sometimes it has.  "Premiere Pro had encountered problems and will now close..."   Any suggestions?
Here is what I am working with:
Pyro PCI card
650W Power Supply
Supermicro X7DAE Dual-Core Xeon Motherboard
Dual Intel Xeon 5150 (10.64 GHz Total)
4GB DDR2-667 FBDIMM RAM (4x1GB)
ATI FireGL V3350 256MB PCIe Video Card
Creative Labs AudigySE Sound Card
80GB OS/Application Hard Drive
1000GB SATA Internal Video RAID (2x500)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Adobe Production Suite CS3

I guess what Harm is saying is that if your hardware checks out, your footage is "typical", and no immediate solution is evident, then a re-install is often the fastest and most effective solution. If you have your OS on one drive and all your data on another, this process becomes pretty straightforward, even more so if you've "slipped" your copy of XP with all its updates. Why spend 6 hours troubleshooting and get a possible solution when you could spend 2 hours re-installing and get an almost guaranteed solution!
If you want to have a tinker before taking the plunge, there are a couple of things that I'd look at:
1) Virus Checker. Download MS's "Process Explorer" (overblown Task Manager) and see if anything is going nuts when you open a larger project
2) CS3 all patched up?
3) Hard disk cache setting. You say things go pear-shaped at about 30 minutes (about 6 gig in DV language) maybe there's an issue with your Windows Page File that is slowing things down. If you have a "hard" setting in there, change it back to automatic and see if you have any improvement. Also, where is it? across two disks? check you have enough room on your OS disk for the pagefile to work as it should.
4) Check the location of your Media Cache files. Think about trashing all the cache files for the project and see if that improves anything. Make sure that anything that Premiere will be accessing (the Media Cache Database, the cache files etc) is where it should be and not in some wierd place (like on a network share)
5) On the timeline, what display options do you have turned on? First frame/last frame? or "movie strip" view?
That's all I can think of for now... is the re-install looking more attractive??  ;-)
MP

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