I don't see my previous post... so sorry if i post this again.

The crashes were caused by my sound card (I use XP) and I went to the control panel, sound and audio devices, audio tab, under defualt device press advanced, performance and scroll the acceleration to basic or no acceleration. Also I installed full so I turned off the throne room. That fixed the crashing problem.

As for the sound problems I can't fix it, so as mentioned before I switched off the throne room.

Hopes this helps (btw if you want to listen to all the speaches browse in the STW folder)