IE9 Crash on closing tab/exit

After upgrading to IE9 I started to experience frequent crashes when closing a tab or closing IE. When attaching the VS2010 debugger it showed me the following call stack:

>    KernelBase.dll!_DebugBreak@0()  + 0x2 bytes   
     d3d9d.dll!_MemState()  + 0xae bytes   
     d3d9d.dll!_MemFini()  + 0x29 bytes   
     d3d9d.dll!_DllMain@12()  + 0x32b bytes   
     d3d9d.dll!__CRT_INIT@12()  + 0x26d bytes   
     IEShims.dll!CShimBindings::DllMainHook()  + 0x72 bytes   
     IEShims.dll!CShimBindings::s_DllMainHook()  + 0x49 bytes   
     ntdll.dll!_LdrpCallInitRoutine@16()  + 0x14 bytes   
     ntdll.dll!_LdrShutdownProcess@0()  - 0x2ae bytes   
     ntdll.dll!_RtlExitUserProcess@4()  + 0x74 bytes   
     kernel32.dll!76532164()    
     msvcrt.dll!___crtExitProcess()  + 0x17 bytes   
     msvcrt.dll!__cinit()  + 0x13c8 bytes   
     msvcrt.dll!_exit()  + 0x11 bytes   
     iexplore.exe!__initterm_e()  - 0x1973 bytes   
     kernel32.dll!@BaseThreadInitThunk@12()  + 0x12 bytes   
     ntdll.dll!___RtlUserThreadStart@8()  + 0x27 bytes   
     ntdll.dll!__RtlUserThreadStart@8()  + 0x1b bytes   

Seeing d3d9d.dll on the callstack finally gave me clues to what the reason could be. I installed the DirectX SDK long ago and configured D3D to run in debug mode in stead of the retail . Apparently something IE does not like!!