Stuttering playback on editing monitor

Playback of movie being edited on the editing monitor is erratic and stuttery. I went to iMovie HD Preferences and selected both "Standard" and "Highest" playback modes to no avail. The stuttery playback continues.
However, when I click on "full screen playback", the stuttering ceases and playback smooths out.
I also encounter annoying delays in response to start and stop play commands in the editing process.
The movie, currently 46 minutes long, contains 100-110 stills but no slow motion scenes. Other than a half-dozen scrolling titles, all the rest is video.
Any ideas as to what's causing the stuttering and delay problems and their solutions will be much appreciated.
Ewald
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

If your project contains audio clips as well as video clips, you might be seeing the slowdown that occurs when the project contains many audio clips.
More about the problem here, with workarounds:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2597033#2597033
The precise number of audio clips that causes this problem seems to vary from Mac to Mac. As few as 30 audio clips has been reported.
The project I just tested plays poorly except in Full Screen mode. That wasn't true in the others I tested, but apparently Full Screen does work for some projects. So what I see here is consistent with your experience.
Karl

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