Upgrade to FCE 4.0 results in dropped frames

I just upgraded to FCE 4.0 from 3.5HD and now key-framed motion clips that worked fine before die repeatedly with dropped frames. I've set RT to safe and dynamic and the memory cache to 80%, and while FCE is resident on my hard drive the files are on the G-Raid linked by firewire (not USB) where the scratch disks, waveform and thumbnail caches, and autosave vault are pointed.
Will upgrading RAM to 4 GB help? How about a new 7200 rpm hard drive with 16 meg cache?
What else should I do?

Hi(Bonjour)!
Install the FCE 4.0.1 update via software update.
Try to render for playback.
Michel Boissonneault

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