Clearing history (cookies, etc..) locks up firefox 4 and 5 in Win 7 64 bit

I have 4 completely different PCs running Windows 7 64 bit. Every time I manually clear the history/cookies/etc.. firefox locks up and crashes. This has been happening since firefox 4 and still exists in firefox 5. Also, closing firefox (4 or 5) doesnt always kill the process. So later (even hours later) when I try to open up firefox, I get a message that an instance is already running. Its not killing the process. I have to kill it manually.

You could copy CD/DVD of BC 4 to Windows  C:. I keep various BC versions in a C:\MacSaves folder.
You could then delete the Drivers\ATI folder and try Setup.exe without it.
If that fails, you'll see Bootcamp(64).msi in the Apple Folder. You could try to run this by itself.

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