Update:
This is definitely being caused by my COMODO firewall software.
I had suspected this right off, so I had stopped COMODO and rebooted, so thinking I'd removed that possibility. It seems some part of COMODO is still running. Also, choosing to disable firewall security and defense security still did not help. Possibly other firewall software does something similar. Haven't figured out how override this in COMODO. I told COMODO the debugger was a trusted app, then tried making it an installer even, gave it every permission possible, etc., etc...seems COMODO just stops it anyway).
Will post back if I figure it out, but for those searching and arriving at this thread when having this problem, you should definitely check if your firewall is causing the seg fault. You can easily check by looking at what file is at level 0 when the seg fault happens. If it is a DLL associated with your firewall....well, bingo.