Anyone having problems with Lion on MacBook Pro 15"?

I upgraded to Lion through the App Store the day it came out and have had nothing but problems ever since. Snow Leopard was running fine. Lion would cause random application crashes all the time. I had to constantly run Disk Utility to repair permissions and repair the disk. I am currently reinstalling Snow Leopard.

I'm back!
Frustrated by multiple install tries and calls to Apple Support, and in a process of elimination, I took my MacBook Pro 15" 5,1 to an Apple Store, and they ran all the hardware diagnostic tests, and found nothing wrong with it.
So...
1 - I bought and installed a new battery as mine was starting to bulge a little (it had still passed the test).
2 - I put the original 4GB RAM back in it.
3 - I reformatted the internal drive (again).
4 - I ran the Lion installer and it made it all the way through the process.
5 - I did not use Migration Assistant... just left a clean Lion install on the MacBook Pro.
6 - Then I re-installed my 8GB RAM and booted up - it worked fine.
7 - I then drag-copied all my user files from my Time Machine back-up disk.
8 - I reinstalled all my application software from original disks and installers (no drag copies from backups).
Lion running on my MacBook Pro has been stable ever since.
CONCLUSIONS
• Lion doesn't like certain third-party RAM that worked fine under Snow Leopard.
• The Migration Assistant is also worthless in some circumstances.
• Time Machine is worthless in some circumstances.
• As a Mac owner, user and customer since 1987, I expected better from Apple in a major software upgrade like this.

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