Premiere Pro CS6 Mac Playback Issues

I've searched for similar issues, and while I found plenty of playback issues, I didn't see anything like what I'm experiencing.
MacPro Quad-Core Xeon 2.26 x2 (8b cores)
12 GB ram
OS 10.6.8 (can't update this due to other infrastructure)
Nvidia GeForce GT 120
FAST Fiber attached SAN
Local Raid0 media drive
I know the GPU isn't compatible with the Mercury hardware acceleration.
I've been a Premiere Pro user since version 2 and have kept current through the years. I'm happily running CS5.5 on PC's in my home office. I recently installed the trial version of CS6 on my Mac at work to evaluate for that environment, and I'm pulling my hair out trying to get over some basic issues. I have no problems with Media Encoder or AE.
In Premiere using preview or program (timeline), playback stops after roughly a second... though it varies by several frames each time. I tested this with various video files, .wav files, stills (jpeg, psd), etc. I even tested with black video and bars generated inside Premiere. The problem persists with all of the above... click play, and playback stops after about a second. Scrubbing works great... I've tried different playback resolutions. I'm not using any 3rd party monitoring devices or I/O cards on this machine.
I have FCP 7 installed on the same machine and have no trouble editing and playing 1080i video all day long.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

The above suggestion worked for me briefly, but the problem keeps re-occuring.
I too am using Snow Leopard 10.6.8, NVIDIA gfx card (8800) and an ATI Radeon 5500.
Premiere played back fine in Lion and Mountain Lion, but I downgraded because I have old quicktime files and Final Cut 7 projects that i need to work with so Lion is not an option for me.
Bizarre behavior if you ask me.
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