Several LR3 issues - Crashes, memory dumps, and other oddities

I recently built a new PC dedicated to my photo work.
i7 2600k, 16gb DDR 3 ripjaws, 128GB crucial m4 SSD, (2) x 1TB 7200 HDDs (mirrored), Sapphire Radeon HD 5570.
The first month or so of use LR worked great. However, recently I have been getting several errors and oddities.
1) Randomly closes. I can restart it without a problem and pick back up where I left off. There are not warnings or signs that it is about to close.. it just does.
2) "Unexpected end of file". Unable to edit photo. Preview does show, however. I have never seen this error before on other machines.
3) Memory dumps. I assume this is related to LR3 as that is the only program I am actively using when it happens (Chome is always open as well, however) I will have the dump files examined to know for sure.
4) Something new that just started today. In the preview bar on the bottom, as I scroll through the photos I see the previews of other photos.. some photos from other folders I took weeks or months ago. When I hover over the image it changes to what it should be. I am seeing 2 instances of this. 1 with a photo from this particular shoot and one from one I did over a month ago. Everything I scroll back and forth (rapidly or not) as the previews load it loads the wrong files first, multiple times (around 8 or 9 in a row) and then they slowly change to what it should be.
I am not sure if I am properly describing this error but it is really weird.
Also, this seems to only happen on the images off a CF card. I was borrowing a friends D200 as a 2nd body for a party. When I scroll through the images off my SD card I do not see the issue appear. When I get to the CF portion of the folder is when I see the problem....
I just updated LR today but these issues occured prior to the update and still exist afterwards.
Do I need to do a fresh install of LR?
What precautions do I need to take in doing so to insure my catalogue stays intact?
Thanks for your help.

I am still having issues.
The crash dumps are far less frequent now. I think it may have been a catalogue issue maybe? I started a new one and things were better.
However, I am consistantly getting the "Lightroom has stopped working" and it closes down..... repeatedly. Very Very annoying.
It is not a major issue to just restart Lightroom, esp since it is on an SSD, it pops right back up instantly.
All of my files are on the HDD, however, not the SSD.
I had reinstalled LR3 once before which did not help. Any other suggestinos?
I can't imagine a reinstall of Windows would do anything for me. I have no issues with anything other than LR.
Could my video card be playing a role in the errors? I do notice weird random artifacts in my images sometimes when I add a brush stroke, or clone something out. Or sometimes just simply zooming in will great these weird multicolored lines in the image. Zooming out makes it go away. It is random when it shows up and often times closing and reopening LR will make it go away. So these are not permanent artifacts in the image unless I export the file with them showing. This leads me to think maybe the video card is having some issues. All drivers are up to date. It is not a high end card. Based on all my research when buidling this machine, a basic video card is all that is needed as RL is CPU and memory intensive, which is where I put most of my $. (i7 2600k and 16GB DDR3)

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I have been having some serious problems over the past several months. In the past it was fairly manageable, but recently things have been getting worse.
I have a 12-inch PowerBook G4, I bought it at the McGill bookstore in October 2004. The first problem was the apparently random crashes that Mac OS X (v.10.4.8) would experience from time to time. It was fairly infrequent at first so it didn't bother me too much (and I thought it was just some sort of glitch). But it persisted and came to be expected.
What would happen is that my screen would darken and center box would appear telling me, "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button." (it would display this message in English, French, German, and Japanese for my convenience). After I restart the computer I get the message, "The computer was restarted after Mac OS X quit unexpectedly". At first it seemed to be linked to time; after a while it would just crash, sometimes after an hour or so, sometimes after as little as five minutes. (I fear as I write this that I will have to start over). More recently I've come to associate the crashes with movement of the computer; perhaps the battery (which is pretty much dead after so much use) is affecting the performance, I don't know.
The next problem, which coincided with the crashes, was my clock being reset. I assumed this was directly associated with the spontaneous shutdown of the computer, yet though the crashes continued, the clock was not always reset (just about a third of the time). This was a pretty frustrating inconvenience given the frequency of the crashes at the beginning.
The major problem that prompted me to take action was the lose of sound. One day, about a month ago now, my sound suddenly stopped working. At first I thought it was a hardware problem, but then I noticed the sound was still working with some things and just not others. For example, the sound increase/decrease indicator (the 'pop' sound when turning up or down the sound) stopped working, yet the startup sound still worked. I've found that Realplayer, MPlayer X 2, and Windows Media Player work fine but iTunes, VLC, and Quicktime don't. Most of the applications simply don't make sound but when I try to video in VLC I get the following error: "auhal: we cannot find our HAL component" or "auhal: audio-device var does not exist. device probe failed."
Other minor errors I have come across include inability to detect the Airport card (remedied upon restarting the computer) and occasional seizing up of the keyboard (the letter keys, exclusively, were unresponsive for sometime before working again suddenly without need of restart).
I've run diagnostic tools such as Disk Utility and the 'fsck' command in single-user mode, but nothing has been detected. It consistently comes up saying that everything is alright.
I have backed-up all important files and programs (with the exception of my Firefox bookmarks, do you know how I can save those?) and am prepared to do whatever it takes to bring my computer back to working order. I need my computer for schoolwork and assignments so if I can fix it myself in anyway... I would prefer to avoid lengthly repairs if possible.
Please let me know what my options are, and/or possible things I can do to repair these problems. This whole affair is, unsurprisingly, driving me crazy.
One last thing, upon launching Microsoft Word, I get the following pop-up:
Application Launch Failure
The application "Word" could not be launched because of a shared library error: "3<Microsoft Word><Microsoft Word><MicrosoftLSLibZ>"
I do not know whether this is linked to my other problems or not. This too, is something that has recently come up and is significantly affecting my work (I have had to switch to writing my essays on TextEdit).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Eric Oosenbrug
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

try shutting down, remove the battery, carefully pull out AirPort card and reinstall it.
maybe run hardware test included with CD kit

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Check this link to see a graphical overview of all the items, too:
http://www.meesez.com/illyimprove.pdf
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Unify text antialiasing program-wide. Right now, the pixel preview seems to rasterize text according to the "Type Optimized" algorithm, but Save for Web & Devices uses the "Art Optimized" algorithm. This creates a discrepancy between on-screen preview and web output, especially with very thin fonts. Ideally, there would be per-object antialiasing control, as in Photoshop, which would globally apply to on-screen display, pixel preview display, Save for Web & Devices, Export, and Rasterize.
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Bug fix: font selection by font name keyboard entry. Typing a font name into the font selector in both the control bar and the character palette doesn't always succeed in changing the font of the selected type (tested in Windows XP). This happens sporadically; sometimes the selector will display the new font name but the selected type will remain in the old font. Clicking on the font selector in this situation brings the user to top of the menu, making it necessary to select the desired font by scrolling through the entire list (which does work).
Other Improvements
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Create an option to toggle the display of all document raster effects (while leaving them intact). This would be quite convenient when working with large files having high-resolution raster effects on several layers. In such a situation, small changes to artwork can take a long time to render.
Add support for angle (conical) gradients. I'm guessing that this feature has not yet been implemented either because angle gradients don't interact well with other types of gradients, or perhaps because they can't be transformed into gradient mesh objects due to the "singularity" at the vertex. But couldn't this problem be resolved by being discreet about what's allowed in terms of file saving and conversions to gradient mesh? I would think the folks at Adobe could figure this one out, if it is indeed a mathematical problem.
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Dirty_Deeds, I want to make sure your phone is functioning correctly. I would like to clarify some information you have provided. When you are attempting to reply to anything, are you able to use the keypad to type your reply? Is it just pressing send that presents a problem?
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