Same project on two Macs - Peak-show

Hi,
I want to work with a project on my MacBook pro (4,1, early 2008. 2x2,5), that project was started on a macpro (4,1; 2x4x2,66).
After solving problems concerning the re-Connection, which is really something, Adobe has to work on! Take a Look at fcp, it seeks and finds, pp does not and pp hates folder-structures other than: one folder for all files (Clips that is).
Ok. But what really gets annoying is the Peak-file-creating. Is here any way to stop pp from doing this? I have over 5000 clips!
Why does pp do this anways? And: Why does it need Peak-files an the MacBook and Not On the macpro?
I appriciate your answers!

Peak files are created:
a. the first time a clip is imported into a project, and
b. when the media cache is cleaned.
It is needed for an accurate display of the waveform in the audio tracks in the time line. There is no way to by-pass it.
I understand it takes a long time, but that is mainly caused by the lacking hardware of a MBP, especially on an underpowered one. Reading the audio, creating the peak file and writing it to the same disk and repeating that for all clips will take time, because there are not enough disks in a MBP to distribute the load.
The creation of peak files has been done on the MAC Pro, so it needs not be done again, but the first time on the MBP it needs to be done.
Reconnecting issues only occur if the absolute paths to the clips are not identical on both machines. If they are identical, there is no problem with reconnecting.

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