I finally did what I've been putting off. I wiped our Video Workhorse PC and started fresh. Not only that, but I didn't just go back to the restore-disk version of XP but put Vista Ultimate 64. I've gotten most everything running even though i had to scrounge around finding drivers and such. I re-installed Adobe CS3 Production Suite and so far it seems that premiere at least is pretty peppy even though i do not have the matrox card installed. I think that in removing the Matrox render card, I'll be able to restore some of the basic things that have been lacking for a while (such as SATA Raid and some basic firewire stability). Render times look good so far. Woot.
