True. Actually, I just reverted to 12.41 (last official release) and I'm still getting weird framerate fluctuations. Might just be B.Net being crappy... though I'm not sure if that would affect the fps counter or not.
As for Quake 3, it's still crashing! I hope I didn't f*** up my system... I did delete a couple of .inf files from the windows directory while I was tearing out my old drivers in preperation for the Det4's. And, of course, like a dumbass I didn't save them

They were all named nv4*.inf or nv3*.inf (some of each). I'm pretty sure that was all nVidia stuff, so pulling it shouldn't have hurt anything...
I was upgrading from 12.00.
UPDATE!
Somebody on one of the other threads mentioned the same Q3 issue and also said it was a problem in some of the 1x.xx drivers. I guess it either wasn't in 12.00, or I just didn't notice. Anyway, man am I relieved!