Okay, after a year of hanging and crashing, of updates, replacements and other tweaking,  Pro 2014 continues to crash. I have taken the comp and a spare HDD back to the shop and I told them I wanted the drive re-formatted and a frsh copy of Windows 7 installed. While it is there, I'm going to install Pro 2014 on that drive and have the shop certify that both programs are clean installs.

I sent this information to SM. They insist that it's a component issue and I should have the shop make sure the components are compatiable. COME ON! I've been fighting with this for a freakin' year now! The comp's been in and out of the shop a dozen times checking everything under the sun. Don't you think if it were a compatiblity issue, it would have been found by now??