Every time I try to select an image, blender crashes.

I create a new texture
Set type as "image or movie"
go to the "image" section - Click on the "Open" button
The File viewer appears to start building and then (95% of the time) blender crashes

I'm at a complete loss as to why - Normal file navigation appears to work within blender, its when I try and search for pictures that it falls over.

My pictures folder has lots of files and folders but I can't thik that that is the problem.

I have a Laptop with Vista if that helps!

...On further investigation. Some folders appear to work ok and display image thumbnails.
It appears to depend on the images themselves - a particular problem appears to be bmp files.
Folders without these files work ok

The enclosed an image file that crashes my system every time