Win 7 High Contrast makes Firefox Crash. Solution?

I've been using Windows 7 about two weeks. I couldn't read the screen with either the Win7 or Win Classic themes. Things looked too washed out. I switched to a high-contrast theme. Every time I tweak that, however, Firefox crashes. It shows in Task Manager as "Not Responding" and I can't go to any open page. Is there a way to stop this? In fact, high contrast in Win 7 makes all my pages in FF render oddly. Can I get FF 3.6 to stop processing the high contrsast theme and render pages as they are supposed to be?
Thanks.
Ken

Hi, Yes I think that Service Pack may have caused a glitch. Do you have Flash Player Installed in IE?
When you say you Uninstalled Flash Player & Shockwave, are you speaking of Shockwave Player, or are you referring to Shockwave the plugin?
Let me now on that and then we can proceed.
Thanks,
eidnolb

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