Program settings advice for CS3 Prod Premium on Vista 64-bit

I need advice to optimize my PC for CS3 Production Premium after a clean re-install of Vista 64-bit. I am on a new HP Pavilion d5000t desktop with Quad core 2.66 and 8GB RAM. I got the PC in August, and began having problems from the start. I don't know if it was the computer or CS3.
I was having performance issues and numerous freezes. Failures were mostly in Encore, but also in the other CS3 apps. I got no error messages telling me what was wrong. They simply stopped working" and forced shutdowns. I did plenty of Vista's diagnostics tests but never isolated the cause. After doing a couple of editing jobs, I had cache folders and previes files everywhere.
I now have the computer back to factory condition. It has some neat features and programs, but I probably don't need a lot of it. Norton Security, games, Windows Defender, consumer photo and video apps, and others. However, I am afraid to uninstall or disable anything because I won't know what I'm doing. I had existing jobs in progress before I backed up my files onto an extarnal drive.
I am about to re-install CS3 and restore my backup. I need help setting up scratch disks and other settings. I have no idea how to set up Version Cue or Bridge for file management. The factory system drive is a 2-drive RAID 0 1TB total and is probably the most capable, but I don't know if I should store all my video on there. It used to be you had to separate the system drive from the content storage, but I don't know if that's still the case. Apart from the factory drives, I plan to install two more internal 250 GB SATA drives, an external 1 TB Buffalo drive with triple interface. I also have a MyBook and a Maxtor OneTouch 4 external, both 500 GB. I work primarily with MiniDV video.
Please somebody send me a good configuration plan so I won't get confused again. Thanks.

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