hello, do you have any toolbars, imesh, data manager or other similar suspicious programs installed on your pc? if so please remove them from your windows control panel - a component of those programs (datamngr.dll) is causing the crashes.

Thank you madperson for taking the time to answer my question.

I found two Toolbars; Searchqu and ALOT, and removed them both. I suspect Searchqu was the culprit because I saw "datamngr" flash by as the uninstaller was working away.

Thanks heaps, I i hope someone finds my answer useful as well.

RossM