Vista - Crash on doing anything related to contacts

I bring up the contact menu to send a message or anything and the minute I
select what I want to do, bam, instant freeze and crash. I will not be
putting 9.0 back in here unless I find out what to do. Any ideas?

I already cleaned out all my old Live stuff, including all registry entries,
files, and folders left behind by Live. Even did a virus scan (after finding
I had H@xxxxxx@@K.dll), adware scan (Dump the FLAT STOMACH ADS), and complete
registry cleaning using Registry Clean Expert.
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