Explorer 8, is it freaking any one elses system out?

[Commodore Larence]

So a couple days ago i did a full reformat, I usually do this once or twice a year just for the heck of it, and especially after that whole April Fools virus scare. While bringing my system back up to date (I am running XP SP-3), I decided to install the new Internet Explorer 8. I had been using mainly Fire Fox, but it had got to where Fire Fox was lacking a bit on what pop-ups it blocked, and IE-8 was supposidly the best rated browser according to a few sources for blocking unwanted pop-ups and spy ware from getting in your system. Now while using IE-8 I have blocked just about any thing that could be thrown at me while browsing a few not so great web-sites I check out from time to time (not for what you think, I like to catch up on alot of my tv shows I miss, and movies (not those lol) and a couple asian based sites that resemble YouTube allow me to watch alot of things I can't). Well, it works great in those cases, but I have froze up my browser, locked up my entire system... get constant error reports even just using the browser for basic things. It seems to be unstable to me, or it could just be with my current system set up I dont know... Is any one else having these issues? Know of any good fixes? I was thinking maybe it is just because it is fairly new and still has a few bugs, but alot of what I am dealing with is pretty big stuff I figured would have been sorted out in beta testing.

Larence Tuppington