JItspoet this is exactly......exactly what happens to me. Hope this helps.
But it does happen to aao as well but worse check this out ...it wont even load the intial interface....it keeps clicking back and forth from desktop to aao init. gui. untill I hard reboot.
as if I dont have enough memory. hmmmm
But if I uninstall aao.... all works fine. Real well.
amd 2600
64meg nvidia 8x apg
256 ram
Just meets min requirments for AAO.
Again dp crashes like discribed in first post, only after serveral uses of dp or one us of AAO.