Why is XCode so unstable?

After hearing about XCode's long and illustrious history, I would have expected a very stable product, yet mine is crashing all the time. Always something to do with the editor. Code formatting, undo manager, and simple typing all seem to regularly cause XCode to display error dialogs and then fail to work properly until a restart.
Am I the only person having problems with this?
XCode version: 3.2.1

Resurfacing this again.
I've now cleared xcode completely off my system, cleared all xcode settings from both the system Library and personal Library directories, and then installed the latest 3.2.1 release.
The problems still persist.
Problem one: Garbled editors. Will be editing for a while just fine, then for reason as yet unknown, editor display will suddenly (and I mean as a result of a single keystroke or something) garble all the text from the cursor position to the end of the display. Colour coding is also corrupted. The editor is still maintaining the text correctly behinds the scenes and any further typing is stored in the correct place in the buffer. Only known fix is to refresh the editor window by switching to and from the header file. Xcode will then resume with no problems for a while before something again causes a display corruption.
Problem two: Xcode hides all text. Probably part of problem #1. Similar situation except that in this case, 95% of the text disappears leaving a blank editor with the odd letter scattered around it. Again the editing buffer is unaffected and switching to and from the header fixes it.
Problem 3: Array index out of bounds. Just had this one, it appears to be new. Suddenly started getting popup error dialogs saying that something in xcode was trying to address an array index which was out of bounds. Can't remember exactly what it was, but appeared to be something to do with the storage behind the editor. Had to restart to fix this.
ciao
Derek

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