DC++ 0.7x hangs (Windows XP Professional)

Sorry, I mistakenly posted this as a "question" first.

Previous versions of DC++ (presumably the hashing) interacts badly with my cheap USB disk, reporting that there are disk errors everywhere, and sure enough these errors then also appear in other programs, in worst the case the disk becomes inaccessible (Windows then thinks it needs formatting and suggests that), so I then have to exit DC++ and turn the USB disk off and on again, and then no problem.

Without running DC++ there's no problem with the disk, even with disk-intensive work (it's a Maxtor drive if that helps).

With the latest version of DC++, 0.706, DC++ reports a disk error or two and then *hangs*. It seems the disk error reporting and hang are connected because (1) happens at the same time, and (2) Task Manager shows two application icons with DC++ name, both "not responding", one the ordinary DC++ icon and the other the Windows default app icon, and "go to process" for the default app icon goes to the Explorer process, which I take to mean that it's the balloon help notification -- or some other Explorer hook thing.

Since I didn't really like the new GUI I have temporarily solved the hang problem by re-installing old version. :-)

Would be nice if both the disk problem and hang could be solved, though.