Well, I haven't experienced such crashes elsewhere: I use Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack. Alas. I do, however, only have 1GB of RAM. I'm considering upgrading to 3GB. Another thing I remember is that PLE doesn't use the 2nd core to the intel mac, which would slow down operation a bit. Unfortunately I don't remember the events preceding a crash, only that they seem to occur during modeling specifically. As in, moving vertices in polys or curves, etc. That's all I've got.