Premiere Pro 5.5.2 crashes when generating thumbnails; faults ImageRenderer.dll

Question

Hello all!  I'm a new Premiere user.  I've been working on a review show, and it's been going great for the last month.  A few days ago, however, Premiere Pro started acting wonky.  Part of my show involves putting in small clips from other sources, typically 3-4 seconds.  With this most recent show, Premiere Pro started crashing left and right without warning.  It took me a few days to narrow down the source.
ImageRenderer.dll seems to be crashing when attempting to generate thumbnail images of the sourced clips.  Everything else seems to work fine.  It seemed to start when I used the Clip Speed / Duration function to slow down a 30fps clip to about 25% speed.  I realized later that the clips were at 30fps in a 24fps timeline (the rest of my material is 24fps).  Once I changed the clip's speed, Premiere started crashing, perhaps due to how the clip interacted with the timeline.  I removed the offending clip, but it seemed that the damage was done.  I discovered that if I deleted the source file from the project inventory pane Premiere wouldn't crash. 
I just recently discovered that if I collapse the video track of the source clip, Premiere won't generate thumbnails for those clips and thus remains stable.  I stress-tested my rig all day yesterday using MemTest86 and Prime95, with no errors.  I also uninstalled Premiere Pro, rebooted, and reinstalled from scratch.  I still get the ImageRenderer.dll crash when Premiere attempts to generate thumbnails for the clips.  So far I do have a workaround (collapse the video track) but I would like to figure out a better solution for it.  I even created a new project and re-sourced the clips into a different frame rate. 
Any help would be appreciated!
~Josh
Log Name: 
Application
Source:   
Application Error
Date:     
1/31/2014 9:39:50 AM
Event ID: 
1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:    
Error
Keywords: 
Classic
User:     
N/A
Computer: 
Relic
Description:
Faulting application name: Adobe Premiere Pro.exe, version: 5.5.2.0, time stamp: 0x4e960e56
Faulting module name: ImageRenderer.dll, version: 5.5.2.0, time stamp: 0x4e95f50d
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000001756df
Faulting process id: 0x850
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf1e9244d9c6a7
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5\Adobe Premiere Pro.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5\ImageRenderer.dll
Report Id: 89880013-8a85-11e3-bef2-60a44c639d5c
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-01-31T14:39:50.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>4955</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Relic</Computer>
<Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
<Data>Adobe Premiere Pro.exe</Data>
<Data>5.5.2.0</Data>
<Data>4e960e56</Data>
<Data>ImageRenderer.dll</Data>
<Data>5.5.2.0</Data>
<Data>4e95f50d</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>00000000001756df</Data>
<Data>850</Data>
<Data>01cf1e9244d9c6a7</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5\Adobe Premiere Pro.exe</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5\ImageRenderer.dll</Data>
<Data>89880013-8a85-11e3-bef2-60a44c639d5c</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Answer 1

Same problem - on MBPro 13-inch, Early 2011 running OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)
Uninstalling 3ivx worked like a charm! thanks.