Premiere Pro CS4 Unusable With Hardware RAID 0

Greetings, This is a mysterious problem I seem to be having, let me tell my tale...
I was using a software RAID0 while editing with Premiere.  Even using HD clips, it was very fast! The RAID was only to serve up the footage. Scratch disk and OS disks are on separate drives.
We then upgraded to a Hardware RAID card (3ware) and migrated the data from the old to new drives, everything going fine. Finally get around to opening permiere and the project used to take 2 minutes or so to open, now takes an excruiciating 10-15 minutes!  Plus the timeline that I was able to scrub through at a decent speed is basically unusable.  I cannot play clips in the timeline either unless I render the preview, where on the software RAID I could play unrendered timelines with no stutters.
Went back to the software raid just to check, and it performed just as fast as before.
Of course I assumed it was a hardware issue. So I contacted 3Ware support and basically they were stumped.  Then I moved onto running a whole slew of tests from HDtune on the RAID array. I was getting around 290MBps and very nice random I/O speeds, write speeds were great too.  Weird. I could also open up any of my source clips in Quicktime and they would play perfect, and i could seek anywhere in the clip with no hesitation.
Still not satisified, I opened up about 250 clips in Avid MC5, (using AMA linking to make sure it's not some kind of codec thing) and made a lot of short cuts in the timeline.  And lo and behold, it is playing like it is a rendered clip, and I can scrub through the timeline perfectly.
This weird HDD activity was then confirmed using a disk monitor. Take a look at the graph:  http://www.bubble-engine.com/HDtune.jpg
The low evenly space out bars are activity from using Premiere Pro, when the timeline is unusable. The big solid areas are me using Avid. You can see for some mysterious reason that Premiere isn't accessing the drive properly. But again, on the software RAID Premiere behaves properly.....
Any Ideas?? This is one of the weirdest tech support things I've ever encountered...

when I click the record button, the screen goes to a blue screen with Playing on video hardware
This is normal for HDV.
How do I also get the Scene Detect to work?
With HDV?
Upgrade to CS5.

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