Should captured footage and timeline edit be kept on seperate drives?

i'm new to FCP and have my captured footage and the edited project contained on an external drive... but from the get-go i've been having, what seem to be, memory issues-- everything starts well, but during each new editing session, the thumbnail images on clips entered into the project timeline soon fail to appear. not long after this behavior begins, the clips themselves, while present on the timeline (i know because they play back) are invisible each time i drag them down for editing. after i save the project, shut down and restart, everything is present and back to normal... but once i begin editing, the behavior described above begins to reoccur.
i'm wondering if this issue could be resolved by keeping the project on the apple's internal hard drive while maintaining the captured footage on the external scratch drive... or maybe there's something else going wrong here. any thoughts on this would be much appreciated.
mac g5   Mac OS X (10.3.5)   3.5 gig ram

The generally accepted principle is to keep the
project file on the system drive and all captured
media and render files on a secondary internal (or
external) drive.
Personally I keep my thumbnails on the system drive
as well. They're tiny.
jim, thanks for the response. is there a trick to putting the project and thumbnails on the system drive, keeping them separate from the external scratch drive? or is this easy to figure out? thanks again.
mac g5   Mac OS X (10.3.5)   3.5 gig ram
mac g5   Mac OS X (10.3.5)   3.5 gig ram

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