Adobe Premiere (A DISSAPOINTMENT)

ok i will admit adobe has its strengths, and dont get me wrong I LOVE some of their products, but i have been seeing a downhill slide in certain things, and please lets not tell me its MY system, besides the TEN we tried it on here, numerous people have reported this across the platform of pro users.

the starting basics are

system used (FYI this is a system that is not available to the general public yet, our parent company does a lot of work with the GOV so we have some systems we test for them on occasion)

XP on all systems (NO VISTA) we have enough issues with ADOBE without M$ global F#$%up being in the mix!

4.9 GHZ ZX core
4 GB RAM
2 TB RAID 0 drive
adobe premiere pro CS4 (and also tried cs3 with a bit better results)

ok so i take the source footage, which was shot on a sony camera, not sure which one though, i edit it, then i make the output video, but for SOME REASON all the output videos are "jumpy" i mean i know a cameraman sometimes shakes (especially when doing these sorts of sports events) but i REFUSE in fact the SOURCE footage also refuses to show this.

something with the encoding is screwed up, i dont know if adobe thinks we want to wait 25 minutes for the encoding of a 4 minute video to find out it got screwed up (our company is currently looking for alternatives after this mess up)

one thing i SUSPECTED was the Frame rate was 25 fps in the source, and adobe was making a 29.97 frame rate output, however when i adjusted this i saw a bit of a change but not enough for a pro video

we have used

MPEG 1 (850 MB)
WMV (45 MB)
FLV (12 MB)

none of them show any improvement


does anyone have any suggestions, the encoding time clearly got better when we tried CS3 and that encoder, but as for the shakiness it still exists, ill be happy to post a link so people can watch the FLV clip, any suggestions would be great, pretty sad for adobe to let its products get released with such major production bugs such as the encoder being so slow and its molesting video during encoding!

thanks everyone!