You probably wouldn't uninstall and reinstall it if you already had done it three times.
I went into the registry and removed the correct keys, to make sure I really uninstalled it, as per instructions from Cakewalk. A clean install doesn't stop the crashing.
It only crashes as a VST, not in standalone mode. I made some changes to Windows, as many audio experts recommend: turning off disk indexing, having discs in DMA mode, having the page file's initial and maximum values the same (about 1/4 the amount of RAM in system). Fairly clean install of Windows too, only a few months old. None of the common Window tweaks fix the issue, as I said no other problems with 9 other VSTs...