Why does System Preferences continue to crash under 10.7?

I just installed 10.7 and I can't get System Preferences to stay open longer than a couple seconds. I've tried a restart and that didn't help. I'm running 'verify permissions' right now to see if that helps.
Any ideas?

Really more support for getting an answer than knowing how to fix it.
This is happening to me as well. As soon as I try to use anything in System Prefs, the whole thing crashes and wants to send a note back to Apple.
Very frustrating...

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