I have a sneaking suspicion its vista causing the crashes too.

I am on a wireless router, but I did go to "cables" to see if that would fix it. Still got the crashes.

So I assume there is no new news on this issue?

I guess the good news for me is I will be eventually running 5 instances on a single machine so that should eliminate the crash problems. But until I build my new PC ill just have to deal with it like i have been.