Premiere Pro CS5 Not Responding (Freezing) When Working With Other Programs

Hello,
I have a performance issue with Premiere Pro 5.0.3 version. When I have the program open and bounce to another program or Windows Explorer window lets say to drag in an asset such as a music or video file and then when I make the Premiere window active the program does not respond for a good 15 seconds, then after some processing (you see the mouse icon change and hear the hard drive chugging), I am able to again work. This is happening every time I switch windows to work on something else. Even if I just click away to another window and click right back without doing anything else, it does this non responding action. It even says it in the title bar (Not responding). I am wasting so much time waiting for the program to respond.
My system :
Windows 7 Ultimate
Intel Core i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80 GHz
8.00 GB of RAM
Quadra 5800 Nvidia graphics card
Drobo Pro 24 TB drive (where my project files, music & video files live) connected via iSCUSI
Sonnet 4 TB raid drive (scratch disc) connect via ESATA
Dual Monitors
Please help!
~ Doug

Doug,
Similar had plagued earlier releases of CS5, but I thought that it had been addressed with the CS5.0.3 update. Maybe I am wrong.
There were several other threads here, with similar problems. Maybe they contain some tips that will help. The "constant" seemed to be shifting focus from PrPro, and then back to PrPro.
Good luck,
Hunt

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