Motion Locks Up Computer

I purchased FCS2 and installed it yesterday afternoon, used it for a while, then after it crashed I ran the software updater (should've done this immediately after installation, but I was excited). I thought this was going to fix the crashing, but I was wrong!
I hesitate to call it a crash, because it's not shutting down as much as its locking up everything. Sometimes it will let me move the mouse, sometimes it will not. It won't let me force quit, it won't bring up the dock, or do much else. No error reporting option comes up because it never quits, it just freezes. The only way that I've been able to revive the machine is to reset it. Even then, the usual, Mac OS X shut down unexpectedly, please report to Apple, dialog does not appear. Any reason why this would occur?
Quad 3.0 Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.10) 4 GB Ram, X1900, 500 GB

The problems I have encountered have shown up when using 3d stuff too. I wonder how many others are seeing the same thing. If it's a 3d issue, then thats disappointing. If its a software install issue, then I can at least deal with it and wipe the OS and reinstall everything.

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