Weird Problem just started happening, spinning ball when trying to play

I'm having a problem that just started happening, I've been using Final Cut Pro 5.04 in 10.4.8 on a G4 dual 800 for a long time now, no problems.
Today, I'm doing some Voiceovers, using the V.O. window, not even playing video, and it's doing this thing where I try to play a segment of recorded audio, and the beachball starts spinning for 15-20 seconds, and finally it plays the little snippet. I play it a couple times, it's working normally, then again I try to play it and it waits 20 seconds before kicking in.
I have no idea what to look at to fix this. I didn't change any of my settings, I'm recording onto a drive with about 5 GB of space...
I'm using a MOTU 896 firewire interface for audio.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

I believe there is an issue with updates and firewire from the posts I have read over the last few months. Not sure what to tell you but did you update the OSX resently? Or Quicktime? If I were you I wouldn't update anything just yet. And perhaps you call roll back the OSX to a time and version that worked for you.
Good Luck
Z1&V1user

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