This appears to be a product independent problem. I am running a desktop
machine with an Intel board and an Asus (Nvidia 7600) video card. It appears
that there's something going on somewhere inside Vista that may be related to
hardware but not to any one vendor. I'm not hoping my machine will crash, but
I am hoping that if it does, the debug tool I have running will be able to
capture what was going on at the time.

In general, I've also found Vista to be a marginal performer. I have 2.5GHz
P4 and 1.5GB of memory. Quicktime is almost unusable for video. I thought
this stuff was supposed to work better.

The only good news is that I'm a consultant and can warn my clients to put
any upgrades off for a while until MS finishes debugging the software (with
our help, I guess).

Phil