am i being paranoid here or could there be a malfunction, deterioration in a piece of equipment that is leading to this dangerous safety probelm.
You're being paranoid. Now go away and find yourself a Trekkies forum or something.
We don't know what the events that led up to the Helios crash really are. We are all assuming that it was a pressurisation problem, amongst other things. In the Astraeus incident we know that the crew followed the expected procedure and handled the problem as is expected.
How many times do we have to have anoraks coming on here with their 'conspiracy' theories or speculation that there is some 'common' fault here? The Astraeus incident wouldn't have even made the news if it hadn't been for the Helios crash. Give it a rest.
