If you have an application that dies on your Mac (maybe you get the SPOD, or it just plain crashes), your best shot is usually searching on Google. But the hard part about finding the solution for these types of problems is often asking the right question. One way to help in this regard is the Console application. You can open it by going to Applications -> Utilities -> Console. It shows the system error messages that are generated on your Mac. I've often found that including the messages found here in my Google search greatly improves the relevance of my results.