Nvidia drivers crashing in Adobe Bridge, spinning pinwheel of death

Twice so far in Adobe Bridge my system will randomly lock up with the spinning pinwheel of death. The console shows these lines at the time of the freeze:
8/12/12 9:47:44.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout!
8/12/12 9:47:45.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0x20 = PBDMA Error
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout!
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: IOVendorGLContext::ReportGPURestart
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 0000006e
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000001 0000902d 00000000 00000000
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000000 00000100 00000000 00000009
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000 00000000
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 0000006e
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000001 0000902d 00000000 00000000
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000000 00000100 00000000 00000009
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000 03000821
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 0000006e
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000001 0000902d 00000000 00000000
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000000 00000100 00000000 00000009
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000 00000000
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000
8/12/12 9:48:05.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0x20 = PBDMA Error
This obviously points to the Nvidia drivers crashing, but why? I'm currently using an Nvidia GTX 460 768MB in my Mac Pro, and I've never had this problem with any other applications. It seems to only be Bridge.

And you are assuming that the 460 will be supported of course which is not a given. The 570 and 670 seems to be okay and some use GTX 4xx but they also realized it can be iffy for support.

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6: /usr/bin/X [0x53499f]
7: /usr/bin/X [0x454f14]
8: /usr/bin/X(CheckMotion+0x2af) [0x45925f]
9: /usr/bin/X(ProcessOtherEvent+0x2d9) [0x53e559]
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