emacs 24.3 on Windows 7 does not close properly-Collection of common programming errors

I’m running Emacs 24.3 on a Windows 7 machine. No matter how I close the editor, whether Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, or the menu, Emacs always crashes and I get the error “GNU Emacs: The extensible self-documenting text editor has stopped working” (illustrated below). Does anyone else get a similar error? Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this? FWIW, I had a similar error come up while using Emacs 23 as well. I was under the impression this would go away in Emacs 24. Looks like not. I have attached a screenshot, which links to a full-size version of itself .

I’m also including the complete fault message here, to further assist the trouble shooting:

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name: emacs.exe
  Application Version:  24.3.0.0
  Application Timestamp:    51461ed8
  Fault Module Name:    libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
  Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:   4bc96cad
  Exception Code:   40000015
  Exception Offset: 00016646
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID:    2057
  Additional Information 1: 40aa
  Additional Information 2: 40aadffc5490879468da6327c52e8317
  Additional Information 3: 30a6
  Additional Information 4: 30a67832b564ca36083716f18a2a95ef