I think these crashes during saves have, for the most part, to do with Facegen and the faces.dat file. I know Andreas has been working on getting Facegen to work better with OOTP and I'm sure that the future patch(es) will address a lot of the problems.
Next time one of you crashes, before opening the game again, do you think you can check your faces.dat file and see how large it is? I know there's a problem where if it's 0kb the game won't load the league, so just curious to see what it's size is after a crash. Might not be relevant, though, but never know.
