Adobe camera raw 6.6 freezes when editing

I have a pc, it freezes when switching from one photo to the next. This is a new occurrance and very annoying since I have to force close and start all over again. I process tons of action shots, and this is making it take forever. I have a newer computer with an excellent processor and lots of RAM. Like I said, it's a new development. Can anyone help?

In my case, Canon EOS 7D, on Windows 7, 64bit with all the latest updates. On an HP DV7 laptop with an Intel i5 and 8 gigs of ram.
Photoshop is CS5 64bit from the Web Premium package. I always shoot full res raw files in the adobe color space if that matters.
I also went back and tried with some older files from my EOS 40D and EOS 10D, same thing.
It always seems to be related to opening more than 10-12 files at a time in Camera Raw. It will lock up when going from one file to the next by clicking on them in the left hand panel of camera raw window. This is just doing normal editing operations, you don't have to double click or click real fast or anything special to get it to happen.
The only way to fix it is to kill the Photoshop process in the windows Task Manager process list. Then clear the Camera Raw cache before opening again or else camera raw will not read the file it locked up on previously.
This has been happening very regularly since I updated to camera raw 6.6.
Thanks,
Tom

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