I managed to fix the problem, for me at least.
I have an ATI card, and I was using the default display drivers that come with Windows 7 for it.
Upon installing the updated radeon drivers from ATI's website (the catalyst software and all), it no longer crashes for me.
This may not fix it for everyone, but it worked for me at least. I have Visual Studio installed, so I was given the option to debug after the crash; turns out the crash occurred in some ATI dll file, which lead me to think it might be an issue with my driver. I hope this helps someone else.