Haven't seen this myself, but one question: if you run the CGI version, do you still occasionally get a bomb-out?
If so, it's probably some other program's conflict with IIS. Check your ISAPI filter chain first. In fact, you may want to strip out everything except for PHP from the filter chain to determine if it still happens (as yet another test).
Dave
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