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The hardware acceleration cards for Premiere Pro may not necessarily work in the future. i.e. When premiere moved to premiere pro from premiere 6.5, I believe none of the hardware acceleration cards really worked with the new version.
Nonetheless, computers get obsolete anyways so nothing really lasts. And some format like HDV or affordable DVCPRO100 is going to pop up and force you to move to newer hardware + software.
2- I'd check out Sony Vegas+DVD, which is really good value.
Will run on virtually any PC (no tricky hardware requirements, like Matrox RTX100 + Premiere Pro), all you need is a firewire card for $25.