Outlook 2010 (32-bit) Keeps crashing under Windows 8 (64-bit

[Peter S]

I am running Outlook 2010 under Windows 8 Professional (64-bit). Occasionally, without warning, Outlook crashes when I open a message I have been reading in Preview. Windows tries to re-open the program- "Microsoft Outlook has stopped working," - (sometimes succeeding, others not) and submits an error report to MS. On first upgrade from Win 7 (64-bit) to Win 8, Outlook worked fine. The problem SEEMS to have arisen since Adobe Flash was upgraded(?) I have tried disabling all add-ins; running Outlook in "Safe" mode and even un-installing Java (as suggested elsewhere). I have also un-installed and re-installed Outlook. All to no avail.

It seems mfc90u.dll is the source of the problem(?)

Here is the error log of the most recent crash:

Fault bucket -1336873557, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: OUTLOOK.EXE
P2: 14.0.6117.5001
P3: 4f3e2d20
P4: mfc90u.dll
P5: 9.0.30729.6161
P6: 4dad06e1
P7: c0000005
P8: 00088dc8
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Local\Temp\CVR587B.tmp.cvr
C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Local\Temp\WERED0D.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:
C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_OUTLOOK.EXE_fcc2648228e369ad23450c68f82bfeedfd78d_1c851e98

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: b7fcfe14-2659-11e2-be98-00270e0a2af6
Report Status: 16
Hashed bucket: 18f4a89b9dff365a0acd18c29fbdb642

Any ideas?