Workspace Unusable STILL

[John Mad Anthony]

So seriously, 6 months into using Pro Tools 8, "workspace" is still totally unusable for me on my $20,000+ pro tools HD rig. Any audio file I click on (of all types and on ANY drive) causes the system to loop the audio, then I get the beachball, and then crash. Same thing happens if I put an Audio CD into the tray and click on it's file too. Instant loop, and then crash.

Running PT8 (cs3) on a Quad Core Mac (10.5.6) with 8 Gigs of RAM.
All plug-ins installed are on the compatible list.

I assumed cs3 was going to fix this.

Not.

I use the pref trashing tool, and this usually gets me about 30 minutes of time before workspace crashes again when clicking on audio files.

Had been using PT FULL TIME every day since version 5.0 came out and NEVER had this kind of crashing.

I mean come on, even I-Tunes can play an audio CD on this same computer (even through the Digi hardware!) without crashing, but Pro Tools can't!!!???

Give me a break.

-John Mad Anthony

PS: gonna start on a pretty serious anti-Pro Tools ranting campaign if this crap isn't figured out soon. There ARE alternatives out there...