Unable to Play AVCHD clips in Permiere Elements 8

I just downloaded thge Photoshop/Premiere Elements 8 bundle to use on a Lenovo Think Pad T-400 with video from a Canon Vixia HF 200 AVCHD camcorder. Photoshop works fine, but not Premiere. It will not play my camera's AVCHD video clips (.mts files). Playback is distorted, choppy, incomplete; basically unuseable. The same clips will play perfectly with the Pixela software (Image Mixer 3 ver 5) that came free with my camera. Windows Media Player will play them too.
Here are my computer system specs:
Lenovo Think Pad T-400
Windows XP SP3
Intel Core2 Duo CPU, 2.53GHz
3 GB RAM
100 GB free space on hard drive, recently defragmented
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 graphics card, drivers updated
Is my system underpowered, or might there be another problem?
Also, Premiere will not import or diplay thumbnails for previewing the AVCHD clips, either from existing files on the computer, or from the camcorder. Is there a fix for that?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Cullen

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