Hi Brian,

No worries. Thanks for the offer but I figured things out this morning, just by re-reading the FAQ's and other people's problems here. It turns out that my crashing was due to the Realtek HD Audio hardware acceleration bug that others have reported. I got rid of the crashes by loading the latest driver and by turning the acceleration down from the max. I'm not sure what those settings do for anybody because it doesn't seem to change abnything other than stop the computer from crashing. After that things have run great and I'm on to learning how to fly. At this point I'd say I'm pretty happy with the way this stuff has worked out.

I know where to find you when I have issues.
Thanks,
Dave