GHCi crashes under Windows Millenium

GHCi fails to launch for me under Windows Millenium. The command:

ghc -v --interactive

produces the following:

   ___         ___ _
  / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
 / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 6.6, for Haskell 98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

Using package config file: C:\GHC\GHC-6.6\package.conf
wired-in package base mapped to base-2.0
wired-in package rts mapped to rts-1.0
wired-in package haskell98 mapped to haskell98-1.0
wired-in package template-haskell mapped to template-haskell-2.0
Hsc static flags: -static
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
*** Parser:
*** Desugar:
*** Simplify:
*** CorePrep:
*** ByteCodeGen:
*** Parser:
*** Desugar:
*** Simplify:
*** CorePrep:
*** ByteCodeGen:

at which point GHCi fails with the generic error message (roughly translated from French):

Ghc provoked an error in GHC.EXE. The program Ghc will now be stopped.
If you continue to encounter problems, try to restart your computer.

Restarting the computer, obviously, didn't help.

I am using GHC 6.6 under Windows Millenium, which was set up using the standalone Windows installer. I can use the compiler from the command line without any problems, but whenever I try to launch GHCi from the Start menu or using "ghc --interactive", I get the above error message. Please note that GHCi v6.4.2 works flawlessly on the same machine (a rather old Pentium III 650 MHz with a modest 128 Mo of RAM, if such things matter).

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.6
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	GHCi
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