ffmpeg2theora crashes under windows7 64 bit apache

I'm running ffmpeg2theora under windows7 64 bit apache. A 64 bit Strawberry Perl system(ffmpegtheora ...) happens and ffmpegtheora runs in a dos box that pops up on the screen. I am converting a wav file to an OGG file. After the crash I need to manually say ok to the windows 7 crash box that occurs ("a program has stopped working"). This ruins my whole web system since someone needs to be at the console in order for all the web requests to successfully be serviced. the bomb is intermittant and seems to happen less when I tell the ffmpegtheora (v28) to run as administrator. I also give a sleep for a second in the perl script after the system call. (This seems to help). Even though the bomb will happen, after manually saying ok to the windows dos windows notification, the OGG file will be okay to play. It's almost as if there was corruption of heap that is happening as ffmpeg theora is unwinding mallocs and/or doing ->release() to objects. In this respect the bug is like another bug note on this page