Mouse Pointer freaks out in visualBB

[RetroFiends]

I recently reformatted and reinstalled windows. Previously, I'd been using that 'tinkernut' installer for VisualBB, but after being informed that that isn't the way to go, I decided to go for the lastest version available. (So, I have the 566 version)

For the most part, everything is okay, except the mouse pointer constantly switches between the arrow and the text brackets whenever I move the mouse inside the text editor portion of VbB. While this happens, usage jumps up to about 25% in task manager, which goes back to the almost non-existant footprint as soon as I stop moving the mouse in this area. Before I was kind of "whatever" about it, but it seems to have just caused a crash. So, now I'm worried. Using just the keyboard in the text editor actually does the same thing, and is slower, except it changes between the pointer and the loading wheel, taking up about a max of 10% usage..

My hardware has all the current drivers, but I'm wondering if maybe I'm missing something else, like a .net framework or something of that ilk. Any ideas?

I'm running windows 7 64 bit with 8 GB ram.

Edit: Crash actually happens when I enter more than one duplicate label and then press enter. specifically "_" of which I was using to set up 16 labels I know I'm going to need.

Edited December 22, 2013 by RetroFiends

[+Random Terrain]

Edit: Crash actually happens when I enter more than one duplicate label and then press enter. specifically "_" of which I was using to set up 16 labels I know I'm going to need.

Hopefully you'll get help with the other stuff soon, but when I know I'm going to be doing a lot of things that VbB doesn't like, I turn off Syntax Checking for a while.

[RetroFiends]

Yeah, I actually figured that was how the crash happened, since whenever you hit enter it'll cycle through everything that's not up to snuff. I'll turn off syntax checking and see if that helps.