Premiere Pro CS3 shutting down

Sorry to ask such a simple question, but I am new to Premiere Pro CS3. Basically, whenever I start it up, I get to the point of importing some video (a small file), and then it seems like 3 out of 4 times when I try to do anything with the program after the import is complete, it simply shuts down and disappears with no warnings or errors. I know from experience with Vegas Pro that video editors can be picky and unstable, but this is ridiculous.
Short of "re installing the program", are there any words of advice of things to check concerning the program (or me) to help keep it running longer than 60 seconds? It is running on a Win XP32 machine with no other programs running at the same time.
Thanks in advance for your input.

Excellent article!
SYSTEM:
Let's start with the hardware. This is a built from scratch PC about 2 -3 years old that I put together for using Vegas Pro and other high end Autodesk programs. It is a Tyan server motherboard with two AMD Opteron quad core micros (8 cores total) running at a nominal 2.3 Ghz. Total ram is 8 G of DDR2. The video card is an ATI FireGL V5200 with 512M of video ram, driving two monitors. The operating system is Windows XP 32. It is a dual boot machine, capable of booting into either XP32 or XP x64. The OS are on a 320G SATA2 hard drive. The video files are on a striped RAID consisting of two 320G SATA2 hard drives.
Installed software includes everything from Master Collection CS3, Microsoft Office 2007, and a few other odds and ends. The antivirus is Kaspersky 2009.
ASSETS:
The imported video clip is 80M AVI from a camcorder that plays fine in either Vegas or Windows Media Player.
WORKFLOW:
Have not got that far yet!
Let's start with the simple questions first: When I get to the initial splash screen "Welcome to Adobe Premiere Pro", pressing either the "Exit" button or the red button with the X in the upper right corner of the splash screen causes the program to shut down. Is that to be expected?
Oh, and to the best of my experience, this is the only software from the Master Collection CS3 suite that is having this problem.

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Installation language: English
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