Kimmo Jaskari wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 21:16, Mike Nichols <mike at myownsoho dot net> wrote:
>> Do we know anything about the hardware this is occuring on?
> 
> Only if you are psychic, I guess. ;)
> 
> It's an old Compaq small form factor Celeron with 256MB of memory. Has
> worked quite well, but of course it could be going bad on me.

The most common cause of random behavior I know is bad ram and bad PS. 
Both can be tested with memtest x86 run over night...

			Lee