strange audio dropouts and a nerdy question

Live and Max are playing side by side. I am trying to switch a preset in a pattr through TouchOSC on the iPad in Max. When I do I get audio dropouts in Max *and* Live.

also there is an error message in Console:

22.06.11 21:09:30 kernel IOAudioStream[0xffffff800c9dd400]::clipIfNecessary() – adjusting clipped position to (116d,535b)
22.06.11 21:09:32 kernel IOAudioStream[0xffffff800c9dd400]::clipIfNecessary() – Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (116f,3fb2)->(1170,417b).

What might be causing this?
it’s a new 17" MacBook Pro with 2.3Ghz — so I am hoping it’s not CPU that is causing this…

any help appreciated…!