Premiere Pro CS5 Crashing "Adobe Premiere has stopped working"

Question

Premiere CS5 has started on my Windows 7 64 system, after working for only about 10-15 minutes. After doing a reinstall, reading through forums, and updating drivers, nothing's working. It really doesn't seem like anyone else has had this problem. Based on the suggestions of someone with a similar problem in Photoshop CS5, I ran a registry fix up. The problem persists.
My event viewer showed the follwoing error, which I have posted below. This is slowing me down tremendously, so help is appreciated. It might also be worth noting that, thinking this was a Windows error, I contacted their forums. They thought it was an Adobe code error.
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Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 05/12/2010 1:58:38 AM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Owner-PC
Description:
Faulting application name: Adobe Premiere Pro.exe, version: 5.0.2.0, time stamp: 0x4c731297
Faulting module name: MSVCR90.dll, version: 9.0.30729.4926, time stamp: 0x4a1750b0
Exception code: 0xc0000417
Fault offset: 0x0000000000054fc0
Faulting process id: 0xf18
Faulting application start time: 0x01cb94479d2ad0e5
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS5\Adobe Premiere Pro.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.4926_none_08e1a05ba 83fe554\MSVCR90.dll
Report Id: 15ce75e0-003d-11e0-b0a2-485b3914204f
Event Xml:
1000
2
100
0x80000000000000
6595
Application
Owner-PC
Adobe Premiere Pro.exe
5.0.2.0
4c731297
MSVCR90.dll
9.0.30729.4926
4a1750b0
c0000417
0000000000054fc0
f18
01cb94479d2ad0e5
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS5\Adobe Premiere Pro.exe
C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.4926_none_08e1a05ba8 3fe554\MSVCR90.dll
15ce75e0-003d-11e0-b0a2-485b3914204f

Answer 1

The way that I would work this would be to do a search on my system for msvcr90.dll. I expect you'll find half a dozen or more. Compare the version numbers of the files that you find in Adobe Media Encoder to the ones you have in Premiere Pro. If all the version numbers match except for one, replace the one that doesn't match. On the other hand... if all the version numbers match, replace the ones in Premiere Pro with the ones in Media Encoder. When you replace files make sure you copy files from one location to another, don't actually remove the files from the source location.That probably goes without saying, but better safe than sorry.
Make sure to post back and let others know whether you have success or failure with this trick.
Mitch