Freezing when closing notes

[JayBiggS]

I'm having a strange problem. I get a hard freeze when I close/exit some notes(letters, whatever). It appears to be random, but definitely tied to closing the note dialogs. The screen freezes, but I can still hear the ambient sound effects. I can sometimes see the windows "hourglass" loading cursor and am able to move my mouse around, but I cannot Alt-tab or Ctrl+Alt+Del. I am forced to reboot. Some notes I can exit fine.

I saw the troubleshooting thread that mentions *something* similar to this, with a possible fix, but frankly I do not want to bother playing the game with those post processing settings turned off.

I bought the game off Steam.

I will say this, the fear of my PC freezing adds an extra layer of horror to the game

PC Specs:

XPS 730X Intel® Core™ i7-920 (2.66GHz, 8MB L3 Cache)
Memory: 6GB Tri-Channel DDR3 at 1066MHZ (3x2GB DIMM)
Video Card: nVidia GeForce GTX 285 1024MB
Hard Drive: 1TB - SATA-II, 3GB/S, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache
Operating System: Windows Vista® Home Premium Service Pack 2 64-bit
Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 2233
nVidia 3dVision Glasses
Video Driver: 260.99