Memory draining fglrx drivers?

Maybe I'm the only one who's having this problem (and maybe somebody slipped funny drugs into my lunch), but it seems that my system resources are seriously out of whack since upgrading to 3.9.0 of the fglrx drivers. I can't start TV Time or Mplayer sometimes due to not enough system resources. This started on rare occasions with 3.7.6, but it wasn't nearly this frequent. Anybody else having this problem? --Scott