PSE7: Quality of .mov file playback

I find the playback of .mov files to quite poor in PSE7 - it's rather "jittery" compared with QuickTime. This is a pain as more and more digicams save their movie files to .mov instead of .avi. Does anyone else notice this?
I'm using PSE7 under Vista 64, 12GB RAM, Nvidia GTX280/1GB, Intel Core i7 Extreme.

With the convergence of cameras and camcorders I think Adobe needs to improve the handling of video in PSE. I'm hoping that PSE8 will address these issues but I'm not terribly optimistic given the focus that Adobe seems to be placing on the online component of PSE (which is not interesting to me - at least not the way it's been implemented thus far).
Some of the things I'd like to see:
Handle AVCHD clips. I know that these sort-of work (for some people at least) if you have Premiere Elements installed but PSE needs to handle these natively. I don't know of any digital asset management system that handles AVCHD well (just the little utils that come bundled with cameras/camcorders). I think there's a good opportunity for Adobe here.
Improve .mov playback
Ability to define external viewers e.g., if I want to use Quicktime for .mov, PowerDVD for AVCHD
The video playback window should be non-modal.

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