Okay, I know what's causing the crash-reset error. Now it's a matter of finding out what I borked. But there's a significant glitch in the quest "Save the kitty!" whereupon the game will crash right before killing the target enemy.
The crash-reset is being triggered by a double debuff (heh, double d) trying to be cleared by the game's code. These files are a maze of stuff that shouldn't be doing this, but I'll keep at it.
Now with my sleeping pattern reestablished, I've come to a difficult decision.
Be advised that this is most definitely not an "I quit" message because I'm not quitting.
I'm just starting over. Or maybe I'll just redo the core files and see if that fixes things first. If it does, I can keep going with the map files and save myself a heap of extra work.
I appreciate the offer, Welkin. As soon as I can get a save to that point again, I'll send it over. I really could use some help on this error.
But really, who the hell goes through MEGA user accounts and does this?