Using WMV in Premiere Pro and dealing with huge idle processes

Ok, I'm not sure if these two issues are related but here goes.
I am a training developer, and a lot of what I do is editing screen captures. I have Production Premium that I use to edit my screen captures. The screen captures I get using the free Microsoft Expression Encoder, which encodes into high-quality WMV.
These videos import fine into Premeire, but my machine slows to a crawl when I try to use them. I am a recent import from FCP, and I know that there, I delt with the same issue until I started converting to ProRes.
Now, I know Adobe doesn't have a standard format, but is there another format that I could/should use that would help me.
Perhaps unrelated, but I'm also noticing that, even when I close Premiere, I still have often huge processes running in the background. The premeire pro process sometimes is running at a hundred MB (100,000k) when the program is supposed to be closed (it also runs at a GB of memory when open but idle).
I have a new and fairly fast machine, and am not sure why I'm having these slowdown issues.
I'm running:
Production Premium CS5.5 on Windows 7 (64 bit)
8GB RAM
Intel i7-2600 @ 3.4 GHz
AMD RADEON HD 6350
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions to any of this, from setup changes to better formats to transcode into, I'm all ears.
Thanks!!

I'm not sure what is eating up your system resources, but .wmv files
are considered to be a delivery format, and are not ideal for editing.
I have never tried to edit screen capture video from any source, but you might consider
upgrading to Expression Encoder 4 Pro (with codecs)... at least it includes H.264.
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