I tryed to use the new 2.4 beta on my system.
The Interface starts correctly and at the time of clicking on a footage in the deck (to assign it to a layer) the system crashes. I even can not press 'Ctr-Alt-Del' to stop the process.

However the version 2.3 works correctly.
System:
Win XP (OS)
ATI Radeon 9600 (GFX)
Athlon XP 3000+ (CPU)
Thanks
Curbs