GPMC Crashing and Display issues.

Question

Today I went to open the GPMC on my Windows 8 Desktop and after going to edit a policy we have created all the menu items were blank. I could see the icons for them, but they had no name. After trying to navigate for a few moments MMC Crashes and gives me
this error in event viewer:
Faulting application name: mmc.exe, version: 6.2.9200.16384, time stamp: 0x5010a074
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.2.9200.16420, time stamp: 0x505aaa82
Exception code: 0xc0150010
Fault offset: 0x0007df5e
Faulting process id: 0xfc8
Faulting application start time: 0x01cdb7783eb3c748
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\mmc.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 8bacb439-236b-11e2-be6b-984be1ebad9b
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
with this information afterwords:
Fault bucket -1088739078, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0
Problem signature:
P1: mmc.exe
P2: 6.2.9200.16384
P3: 5010a074
P4: ntdll.dll
P5: 6.2.9200.16420
P6: 505aaa82
P7: c0150010
P8: 0007df5e
P9:
P10:
Attached files:
C:\Users\pomeroyt\AppData\Local\Temp\WER66CC.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
C:\Users\pomeroyt\AppData\Local\Temp\WER6C3B.tmp.appcompat.txt
These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_mmc.exe_636e6b2f6e27a9c7f7e820f7a0adb57213626294_05c36ce6
Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 8bacb439-236b-11e2-be6b-984be1ebad9b
Report Status: 1
Hashed bucket: 098ebb650f3c851a055c696107776b03
I'm not really sure where to go from here. Has anyone else had this issue? 
Were running a 2008 domain. 

Answer 1

I'm also having this problem. Error text from my system below.  It's a fresh install of Windows 8, joined to our domain and updated. VMWare Tools was installed automaticaly, but not even antivirus aside from that. It seems I can use most of the
features of the console, I've even succesfully modified a GPO. If I select the comain in the left pane though, guarenteed crash.  I've tried rebooting.
Anyone make any progress?
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:                       
APPCRASH
Application Name:                            
mmc.exe
Application Version:                          
6.2.9200.16496
Application Timestamp:                    
50ece2e8
Fault Module Name:                         
gpmgmt.dll
Fault Module Version:                       
6.2.9200.16518
Fault Module Timestamp:                 
510ca9a6
Exception Code:                                 
c0000005
Exception Offset:                               
0000000000154f4b
OS Version:                                         
6.2.9200.2.0.0.256.4
Locale ID:                                            
1033
Additional Information 1:                 
f5d5
Additional Information 2:                 
f5d5f2edea5447000260123656b930b4
Additional Information 3:                 
f883
Additional Information 4:  f883ee6437fb5cbaf147d7c9ea29db21