not a big deal but annoying are the most annoying kind! You know that every minute spent on it is basically a waste of time but also they just won't let go, nagging annoying pests.

Just that.

Been looking through the intel support forums. Nothing similar yet, but a shit-ton of problems with the last two driver releases. 

Annoying I can live with. The most annoying kind aren't *merely* annoying, they strike terror of data loss, system reinstall, and $$$ hardware replacement.  :-@  :'C . Sometimes you get an upgrade out of it, but lord what pain.