Lightroom 3 Causes Wacom driver to freeze, requires cold reboot

Question

Machine is;
i7 975
24GB ram
ATI HD 5770 graphics within monitor running 2560*1600 @ 60hz
120GB SSD for windows and programs
4 x 1TB HDD in RAID 10 for data on Highpoint rocket raid card
Win 7 64 Ultimate
Wacom Intuos 3 18*12 digitising tablet Driver version 6.1.6-5 and the three previous versions equally.
No other mouse, tablet only for all applications.
The pointer movement freezes in Lightroom 3.0 and 3.2 after some use, no particular sequence or time frame. More often than not in the Develop Module while scrolling the film strip with the scroll wheel on the tablet cursor. Sometimes 10 minutes sometimes an hour of use.
I exit Lightroom 3.2 by Alt-F Alt-X. Cursor operation does not return. I shutdown the computer with keyboard commannds.
The cursor freeze is system wide and requires a cold reboot to return to normal operation.
The issue occurs with no other programs. Lightroom 2.6 has NO issue with the tablet on the same machine and drivers and everything else.
Lightroom 3 or 3.2 is the only problem program out of cad, office and other typical apps.
I see other threads crashing Lightroom, but Lightroom still responds to keyboard commands in my case.
It appears the wacom driver is being hung by Lightroom.
On the tablet is a normally on blue LED that blinks off for button presses of the cursor. Once frozen no LED blinks happen for the cursor button presses.
Regards
John

Answer 1

John,
Thanks for the pointers.
The driver version 6.1.6-5 is the very latest released only a couple days ago.
As you suggest in your linked thread, I have now set TabletServiceWacom to Restart the Service for all failures.
I'll post back within a week one way or the other.
Regards
John