For me, VS2003 Server Pack 1 is a bust

I just installed Visual Studio .NET 2003 Server Pack 1, as I have written before here and here, I have been experiencing instability (i.e. the IDE is crashing hard) with VS2003 ever since I installed VS2005 on the same machine. I am sad to report that the service pack DOES NOT solve my problems.

It is very easy for me to reproduce two of the crashes:

The Properties crash:

1. Launch Visual Studio 2003.
2. Open a solution.
3. In the Solution Explorer pane, select a project.
4. Right-click on the project and select Properties at the bottom of the context menu.
5. Bam, "An unhandled exception has been caught by the VSW exception filter." and Microsoft sends itself the error information.

The Server Explorer crash:

1. Launch Visual Studio 2003.
2. Open a solution.
3. From the menu bar select View->Server Explorer.
4. Bam, "An unhandled exception has been caught by the VSW exception filter." and Microsoft sends itself the error information.

I don’t really need Server Explorer, but I do need to configure my project properties. On the plus side, at least my project file hasn’t been trashed. (Knock on wood)