Premiere Pro crashing constantly while working with stills & exporting

I've been using Premiere Pro for a few months now, after being a loyal FCP user (since version 1.2!) and for the most part it's been a relatively painless transition.
This latest project is killing me though. There's a lot of stills and they seem to be causing PP to crash. I cannot get anything done. Cannot even export my timeline, from Encoder, or directly through PP.
My sequence is just about 5 minutes long and has about 15 JPG photos with moderate pan and scan. I keep getting "Sorry, a serious error has occurred that requires Adobe Premiere Pro to shut down. We will attempt to save your current project" message.
I'm running a MBP Retina. 2.7GHz Intel Core i7. 16GB 1600 MHz Ram. V 10.8.5. The problem exists whether my project file is saved to local or external drive. I've run the most recent Adobe updates, so it's Premiere 6.0.5
Is it possible there's something strange about the way the photos have been prepped? Most of them are straight from the client. But I tried running some through PSD to re-save. That hasn't helped but maybe I'm missing something… This is pretty frustrating. Any clues?
The sequence settings match the source footage (straight from Canon 7D mov files). Is there some known issue with stills that I don't know about? Thanks.

Earlier this year, I suffered through the same issue, which became progressively worse over time. In retrospect, I realized it was connected with the minor upgrades of OSX which in turn installed newer versions of OpenCL. Each one got worse, crashing Premiere more and more often. Ultimately, Premiere became useless--couldn't do a damn thing.
I read about a potential conflict with OpenCL, installed CUDA (which had been installed originally, but apparently lost in a system rebuild), and it worked nearly flawlessly for the past nine months. Yesterday I updated Premiere CS6 and unknown to me, it set the default render engine back to OpenCL. My system was again totally parallized. I deleted all render files, all preferences--anything that might have been corrupt when I realized what was happening. Back to CUDA and instantly my system stabilized.
What a waste of time and frustration. Adobe really needs to get this figured out, or block OpenCL from non-supported systems, or at least offer some semblence of guesswork in the crash messages such as, "You may want to try changing your render engine ..."
Moral of the story? Don't upgrade. If it works, leave it alone.

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