ACR 6.6 damaging my raw files!!!

Hi,
I have very serious problem!!!
I am using Win 7 64 bit, Photoshop CS5 (64bit) and upgrade camera raw 6.5 to 6.6 about week ago. Now some random Nikon D700 NEF file freezing the photoshop in ACR. And also when I force close program from task manager, sometimes it also damage the NEF file aswell!!! So this is serious problem for me.
Hope you will fix it soon.

thanks for the reply noel,
the camera body and pse8 were purchased a couple of months apart, so not really intending to replace either anytime soon......
my issue with it not working is mainly frustration i guess.... having spent a lot of money on the camera i did hope that the industry leading photoediting software (albeit the cut-down version) would work with it without any problems. I'm very happy with pse's performance once i can actually open a file lol
When i go to the folder where i have the raw files stored and try to open with dng it doesn't show any files. (yes they are definitely in there, they can be seen fine in windows explorer, and picasa will quite happily open them)
the version of dng is 6.4.0.139
the source folder says ' no items match your search ' when i select it

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