Please point me in the right direction if I'm posting this technical issue in the wrong place.

I just installed RTW on my computer, and have been having some problems w/ the movies and videos in it. The game otherwise plays smoothly on my system (both battles and campaign map, no lag).

However, the red and black introductory screen w/ the animations, the prologue cut scenes, and that little rotating picture of the forum when you click on the senate all cause my system to have a massive drop in frame rate.

I am playing it on a Pentium 4 2 Ghz machine w/ 768 RAM and a GeForce 4 MX w/ 56MB RAM graphics card. I have about 60 GBs of hard drive space left on my computer.

Any idea what could be causing this? I play DVDs and other video game cut scenes very well (ex. Halo, Far Cry, Neverwinter Nights, etc.).