Lightroom 4 Adjustment Brush Crashed

Hi,
Was editing an image in the develop module, applied the adjustment brush for saturation to the sky area, then pressed the "O" key to see the brushed area and Lightroom 4 crashed. The adjustment brush was set for 100% flow and auto masking with only the saturation slider adjusted to +12. I restarted Lightroom and brought up the same image and went to apply an adjustment brush, but as soon as I clicked on the brush Lightroom locked up and I got the following weirdness on my screen:
Kind of strange - thought you might like to see it.
Now it seems that attempting to do anything with this particular image will cause Lightroom 4 to lockup and display the weird little box. However, I am able to edit other images.
Message was edited by: batracy

Ok, after further testing I have found the following:
1) If I close all other applications, I don't get the weird little black box that looks like a media player. I had Outlook 2007 open previously.
2) Any use of the adjustment brush fails to set an anchor point and causes Lightroom to stop responding.
3) Any use of the "O" key to show the brush strokes will cause Lightroom to hang.
4) Any adjustments have a noticeable lag between making the adjustment and seeing it on the screen.
As mentioned earlier, my system is:
Windows 7 64 bit with all updates applied
Intel Core2 Dual CPU running 2.6Mhz
4GB memory
Nvidia GeForce Graphics card
Over 1TB of disk space
Lightroom 3.6 running amazingly well for me - no lag time unless the file size exceeds 1.5GB which most of the time my images are smaller than that.
Let me know if there is any additional information you need, or things you would like me to check.

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