Since it was never released for Windows 7 my advice is to move forward to something newer like Thunderbird.
As to IE, if reset failed it could be something like the old Flash Crash. I don't see enough details but IE does indeed crash on corrupt jpegs, flash and more. Microsoft doesn't issue fixes for that! Try turning off Flash Hardware Acceleration for now.
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