Latest update to Adobe Flash crashing IE7?

We’ve put the latest (10.1.53.64) version of Adobe Flash Player out to our (Windows XP SP3) testers and within hours we started getting reports that websites with Flash are crashing Internet Explorer (7). Internet Explorer will just disappear intermittently (but regularly) with no error message and nothing in the event log. They don’t have to be doing anything on the page and it can sit there for a couple of minutes while they’re just reading and it’ll disappear.
It only seems to be crashing for people when they have Hardware Acceleration turned on (which is the default) and one common element here is that it’s only crashing regularly on people who have secondary monitors (which are connected via DVI cables) or people on laptops where the external monitor is connected via a DVI cable. Turning on hardware acceleration brings back the crash.
I haven’t experienced a single crash myself (analog VGA cable). No users running the previous 10.0.22.87 release have reported crashing.
We're using the latest available video drivers (intel).
I called the switchboard of the main site that our users go to (www.smh.com.au) and they have experienced an upsurge in calls relating to their website crashing. It could be the site, but I wanted to check if other people were having issues since this new version was released. Has anyone else seen this? Bit scary if the quality isn’t there and they start leveraging WSUS to roll out dodgy updates.
Someone else mentioned DVI cable as a potential avenue to investigate:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2899618

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[[Image:aboutcrashesFx29|width=520]]
 
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