While burrowing through all the commentary in the Application Hibernation thread (the link was posted earlier), I came upon a few gems that you might enjoy:

1) "I guess (being in games) I always hated games that saved games by writing out all of the allocated memory, and restored them by reading it and fixing up the pointers (often missing a few of the pointers in the process). Serialize everything, and you've solved both saving and reproducing any kind of state you need for your application."

Hmmm, I wonder if this is how we get the "Loadgame AI" bug?

2) "I want this feature. Always have. [snip] I also have Rise Of Nations open and minimised and it's been minimised for 5 days. [snip] I want RON and the IE windows to go away from my taskbar for a while. And to survive a reboot (as 5 days ago I rebooted with another RON minimised)."

And here's the absolutely classic reply:

"I thought most games had a "save" feature anyway?"

I will now die laughing!!!