Trouble with WMV files in Premiere

Hello,
I searched first but didn't find my issue or really old discussions came up.
Basically I recorded some screen captured tutorials with Microsoft Expression. Since I'm using the free version when I'm done my only option is to export a WMV file. It won't let me pick MP4 for example.
Anyway I exported fairly lightweight files from Expression, 10,000 kbps, 29,97 fps. In total I'm only talking about 243 MB of footage.
These files play perfect in Windows Media Player and completely aweful in Premiere Pro CC. This is on a Dell 7600 Nvidia Maximus setup with Mercury CUDA playback enabled. It should fly with only one video track playing. On other projects I've used DSLR 1080p footage with AE linked comps in the timeline with heavy effects and I could still play back in realtime.
I'm currently rendering a proxy file so that I can actually work and see footage play back. Typically my render times are great but with the WMV files it's terrible. It's going to take 4.5 hours to render 22 minutes of just video. No crazy AE comp or anything like that.
So anything I can do to fix this? i see myself doing more of these in the future and this workflow is horrible and a huge waste of time. There's gotta be a better option.
Thanks!
Rich

Aweful as in 30fps playback in WMP and 0fps playback in Premiere. The video will play choppy for the first 1 or 2 seconds then stop updating alltogether. Only when I stop playback (and after a several second wait) will the video refresh.
Again, plays 100% perfectly in WMP. Files are small, 50-100 megs each. Only in Premiere do they not play correctly.
To even work I've had to create proxy videos in another format. That wouldn't be that big of a deal but the slow playback affects Media Encoder too. Encoding 250 megs, about 25 minutes of footage in a low bit rate, took about 6 hours. Normally with another format that would only take a couple of minutes.
Kinda funny / sad. My video was full frame until I tried uninstalling that update described in the other thread. Now it's half frame, ha ha. Now to try and reinstall that update that broke their system in the hopes that it fixes mine.

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