I've installed 304.43 on my Ubuntu 12.04 (Gnome-Shell) with Nvidia 8800 GT and experienced no crashes for whole week so it looks like this bug is really fixed in this driver release.
I've installed 304.43 on my Ubuntu 12.04 (Gnome-Shell) with Nvidia 8800 GT and experienced no crashes for whole week so it looks like this bug is really fixed in this driver release.