Intel upgrade made Compiz go bananas

Okay I've been having problems with Compiz and spawning windows recently in that emerald shut itself off whenever a window popped up (say, if I opened an application or received an instant message).
So an update came along, installed it. Now when a window opens in Compiz the screen goes black except for the cursor and neither the touchpad nor the keyboard responds.
It's been like a series of downgrades with Intel+Compiz lately. First there was a performance decrease, then the window decoration issue, now it freezes entirely. What the heck, Intel?

Im not getting a similar error to the one mentioned above, but I am encountering some strange problems with intel and compiz (glx / dri / 3d in general i think)
It all started when I noticed that loading large images in Firefox would cause Xorg to lock up (I could move the mouse, and non-gui apps that were already running (mpd) still ran). Out of curiousity, I tried reproducing the problem while running Xorg without xorg.conf. It still crashed, but it started itself back up on vc/8. Xorg left a nasty looking backtrace (*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/Xorg: double free or corruption (!prev) --- followed by a backtrace) on my vc/7 which mentioned libdricore.so, i965_dri.so, and libglx.so.
I am getting a bunch of random windows opening when I first login to GNOME (I can see the windows' icons in AWN - they close immediately though).
Im currently investigating the cause of the problem on my system (this is fun!)

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