Video choppy after adding audio

This is my fourth year creating a basketball highlight video for the local high school and I have a new problem I haven't been able to solve. I've imported clips from the past 5 games using iMovie HD and everything worked great. I recently added a song for background music (same thing I've done previous years) and now when I play the video it is real choppy. The audio plays fine.
I've seen previous posts regarding this topic suggesting exporting the video with sound track and re-importing. I can't do this because I'll have to go back later to shorten or lengthen clips depending on how the rest of the season goes. I also read you can solve it going back a version in QuickTime, but I can't do that with 10.4. I have playback set to Standard under preferences. I'm using an external firewire drive with 30gb available. iMovie is stored on my internal drive. I've ran all the recommended maintenance on my mac. Does anyone have other suggestions?
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 800mhz 768Ram
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 800mhz 768Ram

Same problem here. Do you have a lot of audio clips? I'm working on a project with around 40 audio clips, and I find that if I delete half of them (no matter which half), the choppy video is gone. Very frustrating, and I hope there's an answer soon which doesn't require buying a new computer.
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