Patched VI Crashes

Hello all. I recently purchased VI and installed the patch. Now, when I try to save the game by hitting escape, and going to the save/load "parchment" screen, MTW crashes to the desktop. I think it's because I'm defeating the AI so brilliantly that it refuses to be humiliated any more, but I would still like to save a game now and then http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif . Has this happened to anyone else? I can always resort to re-installing the entire game, but for some reason my cd drive installs very slowly, and I am loath to wait an hour for it (unless someone thinks it is likely to solve the problem). I kind of hope mine is an isolated case; if this is common, we might have to get a patch for the patch [shudder].

Guthwyn