Live! Cam Voice causing XP to crash

I have been using the Live! Cam Voice with no problems for about two months. However, now all of a sudden it is causing XP to crash and reboot, sometimes after an hour or so, and sometimes all it takes is having WebCam Center opened without uploading. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and downloading the latest version of the driver and installing just that, while uploading from non-Creative software - XP still crashes, so I assume it is the driver that is the problem.
I have also the driver and software for the NX Ultra (can't remember the exact name) installed, but this hasn't been interfering, as I said everything worked smoothly until a few days ago. Incidentally, the crashing started after I installed MS desktop search which made the PC very slow; it isn't currently installed, but the crash/reboot problem persists.
Any idea what is wrong, and what I can do? Ta.

Did you ever solve this problem? I have a similar problem on my desk top running Vista Home. I couldn't get the Vista driver (download from this wesite) to load so resorted to trying the XP dri've. This seemed to work until Vista put the machine into "Sleep" mode. After coming out of Sleep mode I eith have to restart the computer or disconnect and reconnect the webcam.

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***Note***
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