Reply to So... is this fixable or did I waste a lot of money on a Dell?

So, I'm on a new Dell Latitude E5410 Laptop, Pentium I7 2.8ghz, Win7HomePremium, 4gb Ram, with an Audio8, and a VCI-100SE, with the Newest TSI Mac Edition, on Traktor Scratch Pro, which is set at 5.5ms Latency. I've also already installed Str8UpDrews Midi Patch, but that hasn't helped...
My problem is that when I have a song playing in traktor, ever so often, randomly, the entire system just pauses for a split second, the sound stops, the waveforms stop scrolling, everything just kinda pauses for a second, then continues. This starts to happen when I'm just playing a single track on one side, not even starting to test the systems performance, although it does seem to happen a bit more when I'm doing more stuff like FX and using the faders, and its the same with Wavs or Mp3s. Also, I'm not running anything else on the laptop except TSP and the Midi Patch from Str8UpDrew. I've tried some stuff like updating the chipset and bios, but they're already the newest versions. I've got a gig in about a month and another in 2 months, and although they're far off, I'm already getting nervous imagining these gaps popping up during my sets! It's really unacceptable. So.... does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? I'm believein of selling an organ to get a MBP (semi-joking).
Any help would be majorly appreciated! Thanks
Steeboh Savadelic