I'll bet the reason it crashes a lot is because it's just a ported and carbonised version of the PC source, if you've got a non-standard machine, then you'll hit problems. I have/had the exact same problems on 2Ghz Pentuim4 with 1Gb of Ram under XP, gave up using it and went back to P4 in frustration. Sorry to hear your having problems man, honestly... later jb