Lightroom 1.0 lacks stability compared to beta 4.1

I use lightroom for developing 16 bit/color TIFF files (raw scans - approx. 115 MB each). I started to use lightroom 1 trial. It seems it much less stable than beta 4 and 4.1. I often have "out of memory" or "unknown error" error which never happened with beta. Does anyone encounter such problem?
It happens also that lightroom 1 terminates unexpectedly.
My database contains approx. 14 000 TIFF files and 3000 RAW files. Computer - P4 D 3GHz, 2 GB RAM, Windows XP.

I have had Lightroom crash several time now.
* It crashed on importing 16,000 files.
* It crashed a number of times doing various library/develop operations.
* It crashes every time if I select Myriad Web Pro "Bold/Italic" or Myriad Web TT "Bold/Italic" font for my identity plate. Have not found any other font that crashes.
I do not remember betas ever crashing on me.
I do not use nView. I do use Windows Vista. 2 GB RAM.

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