MediaSmart TV Freeze

When flipping from the Full screen to the Channel Index skin, All I get is a totally black screen with the small TV window. I never had this problem before. I have always used the small portable antenna and now that, that doesn't work anymore, I switched to the coaxe pigtail with an amplified rabbit ears/disc TV antenna.
Now, my Media Smart TV is acting up. I close it, reopen it, restart computer, and still the same. 
Also, sometimes when the signal comes in and out, a problem with the small portable antenna, the TV scene would freeze. I had to shut down the Media Smart and reopen to unstick it.
Can not a "Refresh" button be provided to clear the stuck image?  How hard would that be? 
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Update. Well, the good news that lasted all of a half-a-day. I was too quick.
Everytime I open my Media Smart TV with Integral TV Tuner with a Ten year old Radio Shack amplified Rabbit Ears, I get some thing new each day.
One day, within a day, it shut down, "Not Responding" three times.
The problem of clicking back to the channel screen and it being black with only the small window of the actual TV has returned. It occasionaly pops up now and again. Once it was recurrent, back to back, now it pops up here and there.
The channels have reverted to other EPG info not their own. Channel 17 shows up on several other TV channels.
Occassionaly I awake with all the TV channells doubled.  Then, it corrects itself.
Today I start it and there are Four (4) channel '4's, two channel '2's and three channel '16's. And some of the channel info from the EPG signal matches.
Another problem, when watching a movie, usually on Saturday night for three hours. 3/4 of the way into the show, the fan ramps up. I turn on the Windows Task Manager, and my CPU is doing crazy revs. The thing is screamin' because of Media Smart. I then shut down Media Smart TV and let it settle back down. Then I restart Media Smart TV missing parts of the show.
There is not now a day that goes by that I am not suprised with something new in my Media Smart TV. I get revolving stew of the above in no pattern. All the above are recurring problems now.
I used to have the small portable TV attached. I wore out two of them because the connector gets sloppy. I only got two channels, (All I watch is the news for the weather and the occassional movie and murder mysteries) and the Media Smart TV acted just fine.  Now, that I am on the rabbit ears, and just returned from the HP Tech, media smart has not acted right since then.
I've tried looking for updates. I even open the Media Smart DVD section and under settings, there is nothing there. I can find NO new version of Media Smart. I've run my Norton Utilities, defraged everything, cleaned out stuff. Nothing there.
ONE SUGGESTION: Norton utitlies does a great job of cleaning out the caches for Internet explorer; maybe HP should contact Norton to have their utilities clean out the caches for Media Smart TV.
My other concern. I bought an HDX 18t-1200 CTO, with a QUAD and 8 MEGs of RAM. I thought I was buying something that would have NO problem whatsoever with what was thrown at it. I guess I am mistaken. How does a machine with a QUAD and 8megs of RAM have problems with Media Smart TV?
Is there blowback (feedback) from the amplification of the Rabbit Ears?
Is there a problem with the caches?
I had an old Compaq. And the software, especially the Windows XP gave it conniption fits. I swore, that I would never be in that position again. I would buy a machine powerful enough to handle every situation. I maxed out the RAM. I bought the second best processor. And still something is not working right.
I have no clue what is going on. I bought the HDX, (I really love it) as my "All-in-one" media machine.  I own no other media device; no separate DVD player, no separate TV. I have used the TV everyday on this machine other than it was in repair. I have unplugged and plugged the portable antenna innumerable times. I wore out two antennas this way. I am now on the co-axial pigtail that also came with the machine originally. My only antenna now is the amplified Rabbit Ears.
I tried solving this problem with the Escalation team, who sent me the HP USB TV Tuner. All I got was the unit. I found the software on line, downloaded it. It worked briefly. Unlike the Integral TV Tuner which you can unplug and plug back in and still get the signal, once you unplug the USB TV Tuner, such as  taking one's computer to the next room showing a friend  what one found on the internet, when you plug back in the USB while computer is running, CAN NOT resume signal. And then once I ran Norton registry cleaner, the computer LOST  the software to the USB TV Tuner.
So I am stuck with the coaxial pigtail as my ONLY means of getting TV.
So I have tried all routes open to a non-techie.
(And somebody please remove the "Solved" from this thread. Thank you.)

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