Video playback interuptions/pinwheel in Safari

Greetings everyone.
I'm not sure if I have two separate problems or if the following two issues are two symptoms of the same problem.
When I am playing video file in Front Row, the video will stop for nearly a full minute and then restart about a minute further into playback. Often, I can rewind back to a point before the pause and replay the skipped section without a problem. This would seem to elminate the possibility of an issue with the video file itself. I'm at a loss to explain. This is an issue I've had since I bought my Macbook a year ago.
More recently, in the last few months, while I'm browsing around my desktop or in Safari, the colour pinwheel will pop up, run for nearly a minute, taking total control of the computer and then releasing it whenever its done. This can be simple web browsing; Amazon, Google news etc. not hugely complicated content for the computer to download and keep up with.
I have one of the early Macbooks that doesn't have Core 2 duo. I do have 1GB of RAM though. The second issue I mentioned started only this summer, presumably after one of the recent OS updates.
Suggestions??? Things like this really affect the usability of this, my first, Mac,
Thanks
Dave

Part of your problems is 1 GB of RAM this affects the streaming on videos. You could try the following. It will take a little experimentation to set it for your machine.
Open *System Preferences* choose QuickTime. Pick *Streaming. I prefer to have *Streaming Speed* set on Automatic, you can set it to what your hook is. I also have *Enable Instant-ON* checked. This will allow you to set a delay on playback. Play with this adjustment until you get better results on streaming playback.

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