Sorry, I should have posted that I did send Andreas a PM with links to my files. Haven't heard back, but I assume he's got a hold of them.
I ran a test last night to see if faces.dat still became corrupt during the second season with OOTP 8 (previous tests were with OOTP 2007). Sadly it does still go bad, so my league is still on the clock with that problem. I'm hoping that the images and faces.dat problem end up being related; if so, having my file (which exhibits both problems) for testing might help isolate the cause of both problems.
EDIT: I'm too slow!
Good to know Andreas has the files. Good luck with them!