Premiere's Playhead is Lagging Behind the Audio and Video

Premiere 14.3.1 Build 45. The playhead is lagging behind the video. It does not matter what footage if any is in my sequence. It is consistant in my sequence. early on it is 2:02 behind the audio, later I stop the playback when the audio gets to the end of the spot and it is just short of 15 seconds behind the audio. This is haoppening on all my projects regardless of restarting Premiere or the computer. It's incredibly frustrating! Why does Adobe keep releasing new versions of Premiere with such obvious bugs??? Especially bugs like this that hinder my productivity!!