OK, my game ran fine the FIRST time, but then the first time I went to save it hung on the save screen for about 10 minutes.  The progress circle wasn't animated but I could move my cursor.  Eventually I terminated the process.  The next time I went to load, I got the same problems described here.  Removing Awesome.package lets me load and I see that the save was successful.  I'm in the process of trying the many suggestions here.  When I say "first," I mean the first time I've run the game with ANY version of the mod.

In the error report, I found this line:

[Instruction data]
004df15b => DasmX86Dll.dll not found.

Might be worth looking in to?

With all due respect J. M. Pescado, and I mean that sincerely since your mod is really, well, awesome, I've found your claims of voodoo magic being the cause to be disheartening.  I understand that you don't see where the problem is, and that different people get different results from trying different things.  To me, this says there are multiple, different problems occurring that just all happen to have the same symptoms.  I know you must be looking for the problems and looking to fix them, but when you say, "this shouldn't be happening, it must be magic," it gives the impression that you aren't trying to fix the code because you don't perceive any problem with it.  If I had to wager a totally wild guess, there's a process you're using or added in to record necessary that's a bit "fragile."  For some people it works fine.  For others, it occasionally produces corrupt data that causes the game to crash.  So you may be right, it could be that there isn't anything in your code causing these crashes, but it also might be that it could stand to be a bit more robust.

But again, I'm sorry to criticize and I thank you for all your work.  I had a great time with your mod till I began to encounter problems with it.  Since these crashing problems appear to be new to this version, do you think you could make the previous version available as well?

EDIT: Clearing the cache files did it.