Urgent: Editing H.264 .mov from my Canon T1i

My issue is pretty urgent. I have a video project to shoot in 3 days and hoped to use my new T1i (500D).
I got my camera yesterday and this morning found out that attempting to edit the camera's H.264 clips (720p) in Premiere is problematic.
I'm on a windows xp machine and Premiere Pro CS2.
I can import the .mov file into my premiere project, but playback is very choppy.
I've been reading around the web about codec/avi converters etc...
I'm also considering upgrading my computer... I wonder if this same issue exists on Premiere for Mac -- or is it a Windows issue?
Any insight is really greatly appreciated.

Hard to say. I've got 8 cores and 16 GB of RAM, and the few 5D Mark II
clips I've been able to test are still choppy both in Quicktime Player
Pro and Premiere Pro.
In Pr 4.1, 5D Mark II footage plays and edits like 1080p30 AVCHD footage
did in Pr 4.0. As a counterpoint, 1080p30 AVCHD footage Pr 4.1 plays
and edits now as smooth as glass. So there are obviously some
optimizations for footage from the 5D that are necessary, just like
there were for AVCHD.
So how T1i 720p30 footage will play and edit is a big fat mystery. But
unless you have a quad-core system with sufficient RAM, you don't stand
a chance.
-Jeff

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