I was able to solve all of my issues by going with the idea from this thread:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=39539 which was to try downgrading your NVIDIA driver. So i did downgrade to version 66.94 and so far no problems to report. Well apparently in the end 66.94 was causing me display problems, but no crashes. So yet again i downgraded. This time to Nvidia Driver Version 61.76 seems to have everythin in working order for now. But LIKE I SAID we shouldnt have to downgrade our video drivers to use applications. We JUST shouldnt have to.