the newer updates seem to have taken care of the crashes I was experiencing, but now I am having an issue where the outlines on my taskbar buttons disappear. Rebooting fixes it. Here's an image showing before and after.

Did you leave the PC on for a long time? Lock / Unlock Windows before the buttons disappeared? Cause that's what they are describing in this thread: http://www.binaryfortress.com/Forum/index.php?topic=1037.0 .