Ok uninstalled the MC, did a system restore. Then re-downloaded and installed the stable version.
All is well in river city.
I have the lastest 16 build on another system and have no issues or hangs at all.
One is a laptop that has the hangs with the latest build, the one that is solid is a home built I did that is very fast, all
solid state drive, win7 64bit , overclocked to 4ghz as a game pc....MC is solid here.
On the laptop I tried disabling many services to keep the laptop more of a media server vs a pc. Based this experiment on the computeraudiophile caps 2 article in their site....could be that disabling these services and the selections in the audio options have some interaction.
Now that I am getting used to the interface MC is really very nice and easy to navigate thru very fast....its amazing to use theater mode view and use my 58" plasma as a display and be able to read it across the room...
Alex