Mac OS X Lion 10.7 black screen crashes (and SSD stalls again)

Hi,
I have downloaded and installed Mac OS X 10.7 Lion a couple of hours ago and I am facing blackscreen crashes every hour or so.
Blackscreens seem to happen when I use new Lion features such as mission control, swipe between desktops, and document versions.
The only way to get out of it is by rebooting my MacBook Pro.
Also I am facing stalls with my Crucial M4 SSD 512GB again (spinning beachball stays for ~30 sec while system being totally unresponsive) after I have managed to get rid of them earlier by applying TRIM last week when I had Snow Leopard. I re-enable it in Lion but apparently that didn't solve the problem.
Your help is appreciated.
Nick

the graphics card causing crashes unexpected dirty, scratches, distortions and much more noticeable lion
notable is the reason to install lion consumes more resources

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