Regular, unexpected crashes with nVidia Quadro card

Okay, it looks like there may be an answer for those users who have regular nVidia cards whose drivers are at leat at 196.xx now, but what about those who use a Quadro card?
There are no beta drivers for these cards and their revision number is still way down compared to consumer models.
Does Adobe have an answer for these people?

Hi Neale
Yes, I'm using the just released 191.87WHQL drivers.  Well, when I say that I am, it's actually my uncles machine.
The Stereoscopic 3D drivers are already removed, but it hasn't made any difference.  For some reason nVidia chose to provide those drivers on the FX570 cards.
For reference, the PC has a Core2Duo 2.2Ghz processor, a nVidia Quadro FX 570 graphics card, 8GB RAM, Windows 7 64, ample hard drive space and all plugged in to a Gigabyte GA something or other DS3.
Everything else is rock solid, but Premiere Elements 8 crashes as per the thread at the top of the forums!
I fear it will be a long time before nVidia release 195.85 or whatever the drivers are for the Quadro range.

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    Here is the link:
    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1499797
    Thanks again and hope this helps.

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