Here's the issue...it's startin to drive me crazy!! Hot cues are stuttering. Both on my Denon-3900's and if I hit the 1-5 or 6-0 on computer's keypad. SL 2.3.3 Have tried both ME 1.6 and 2.0 SETUP- (this worked perfectly up until last week) all vidz loaded on an external HD connected with firewire 800 Apple MBPro - with plenty of power (8gb ram, 750 HD, 2.5ghz...) Denon SC-3900's in hybrid mode Have tried loading a few vidz to my internal HD and playing them, same stutter issue occurs. Have tried playing the vidz to let ME and SL analyze, went back to the start of that same vid, hit the hot cues and it still stutters. Have tried analyzing the vidz - stutter still happens. Here's the kicker - when ME is closed, all hot cues work perfectly. SL Video works perfectly. SL without video open works perfectly. Any thoughts/comments/suggestions??