Watching Sons of Anarchy in iTunes crashes my computer

Hello, I purchased season 1 episode 1 of sons of anarchy through the iTunes store, and when I watch it my computer crashes every time at somewhere between 2 - 5 minutes into the show. This is on Windows 7 x64, with a quad core CPU and 4 GB of RAM. My CPU cores never go above 15% utilization while watching, and plenty of RAM available, no irregular heat either. Video drivers are current, OS is fully patched.
I watch and transcode HD video all the time on my computer, from disc and file - never had issues. But I rarely use iTunes, so perhaps this is just a problem with that playback. Hard to tell since the DRM prevents me from actually troubleshooting this. Any thoughts? iTunes 10.0.1.22
Regards,
Rob

Even the standard definition versions crash my computer. But only for that 1 show, episodes from other shows I bought from Apple work fine. Last straw, running iTunes on Windows is just way to flaky for me, and they won't even answer questions about it at the "genius bar".

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