I did the Workaround 1...

Does not seem to have solved my problem. Within 5 seconds of having the Application Loader Wizard up it just suddenly closed -- with no error message. It's almost like the connection to my bb is disconnecting for just a second -- but long enough to trigger the Loader Wizard to close. I don't know why it's doing this.

I have it up again now and it's staying.... been up now for a couple minutes without closing. It seems inconsistant. One time it will close quickly... another time it will close after a couple minutes. But I hate ---- OH IT JUST CLOSED. Anyway, I hate to execute the update and have it die midstream because of connection loss.

Ugh...

I may need to use someone elses's computer to see if it's my PC