got cs3 hooked up and the video in my project is hella dark, i adjusted my vid. card for the monitor and that was fine....but cs3 still looks hella dark in the project, and yes it's not the clips being too dark, its the playback....
just went into settings for "video" and cranked up the brightness, the only thing it affects is applications like media player etc....but not premiere.
Prem doesn't draw to OVERLAY this is what the vid setting are for so forget about them, reset your monitor and try CS3 again, are you sure its not the footage my PDX's LCD used to lie to me on a regular basis when i shot with it (Underexposed)