PMS randomly quits, I have to restart it.& icon in system tray goes away when cursor placed over it

You mean it is locally attached to your server machine and is not a network share?
Then this should be OK.

I see you have WebTools installed. You can use WebTools do delete Plugins.
Or you simply Stop Plex, then empty out the Plugins folder. (Make sure to use the right one though)

V1.15.5 was released at end of April.
There have been many newer versions since then.