I left a complaint with Eon bitching about the memory problems and constant crashing and was told that "they are aware of the problem and will be addressing it with the next release and that THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHEN THAT WOULD BE."
He summed it up nicely with a "thanks for the input".
Ive gone back to using the version prior to the new release.
Funny enough though, I was trying to render a scene that kept constantly crashing on both the final release and the prior one. So I deleted object by object to see what was causing the crash. I never knew that there could be an object in a scened that could a) be rendered in preview but keep crashing in printing to disc modes.
..meh, who knew?