Satellite A660 keeps crashing

My Tosh Satellite A660-11M PSAW3E (Windows 7 Ultimate) was working fine until I installed the MS March 2012 security updates which included the latest update for MS Office Pro 2007. After the install it immediately started crashing soon after boot up and the Action Centre kept saying that a new power driver was available.
I used System Restore to restore back to just before the updates and that seemed to help - the Action Centre said that there was no problems - and the system seemed to be OK. Some of the MS Mar 2012 updates reinstalled and the crashing problem returned.
I used System Restore again to go back to the pre update state. However despite returning to pre update state and manually uninstalling the Office Pro 2007 update, my A660 continues to suddenly crash at frequent but different intervals - some times it is OK for an hour or 2 and other times it crashes within minutes of boot up.
Any ideas and help would be very welcome as I am tearing my hair out over this.

Hi Tks for replying.
No I have not done either the HDD recovery process or used a Recovery Disk. I have just tried to get the system back to the pre update state using Windows 7 Ultimate System Restore.
I feel I cannot risk a full recovery situation until I have at least backed up my valuable files (loads & loads of them and I'm frantically doing that now) to a portable drive as I cannot afford to lose them. Although I do normal backups I am at the moment about 1000km away from my normal base where my usual backup system & past backups are.
The system has now run for over an hour, after 2 crashes in quick succession without a problem, but I feel it could give up at any time.
When I can I will try reverting to factory settings but at the moment I cannot take the risk of screwing up the laptop and losing data & programs.
I do not know for certain if the MS updates (all or one) are responsible but the timing between "no problems" & "crashing" causes suspicion that they may have a hand in the problem.

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