VPN crashing Mountain Lion Finder

When using the VPN with Mountain Lion over IPSec using ShareSecret (I'm using an installed Profile) if I disconnect the whole OS goes crazy and Safari Hangs, and then eventually the toolbar widgets spin the wheel of death, I then tried to kill com.apple.SystemUIServer.agent but Finder relaunch eventually allowed me to "Open" finder again.
All in all, not what one would expect from merely connecting to a VPN network.
Here's a section of the system log...
Sep 27 22:10:59 localhost kernel[0]: New Power Throttle state:1 Old state:0
Sep 27 22:11:00 localhost kernel[0]: New Power Throttle state:0 Old state:1
Sep 27 22:11:41 localhost coreservicesd[27]: SendFlattenedData, got error #268435459 (ipc/send) invalid destination port from ::mach_msg(), sending notification kLSNotifyApplicationDeath to notificationID=142
Sep 27 22:11:41 localhost com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] (com.apple.SystemUIServer.agent[147]): Exited: Killed: 9
Sep 27 22:11:55 localhost Dock[145]: Unable to open IOHIDSystem (e00002bd)
Sep 27 22:11:55 localhost kernel[0]: virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask(task_t, void *, UInt32): Client task not privileged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory (e00002c1)
Sep 27 22:12:52 localhost com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] (com.apple.Finder[148]): Exited: Terminated: 15
Sep 27 22:12:52 localhost WindowServer[80]: dict count after removing entry for window 0x2f is 0
Sep 27 22:12:56 localhost com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] ([0x0-0x42d42d].com.apple.Safari[5965]): Exited: Terminated: 15
Sep 27 22:12:59 localhost com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] ([0x0-0x431431].com.apple.ActivityMonitor[5980]): Exited: Terminated: 15
Sep 27 22:13:13 localhost com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] (com.apple.Finder[5991]): Exited: Terminated: 15
Sep 27 22:13:24 localhost WindowServer[80]: dict count after removing entry for window 0x642 is 0
Sep 27 22:13:24 localhost com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] (com.apple.Finder[5995]): Exited: Terminated: 15
Sep 27 22:13:24 localhost SystemUIServer[5988]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
Sep 27 22:13:24 localhost SystemUIServer[5988]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
Sep 27 22:14:18 localhost WebProcess[6009]: objc[6009]: Object 0x7feea9c1c940 of class NSUserDefaults autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug
Sep 27 22:14:48 --- last message repeated 1 time ---

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