A giant frog ate my halfling.

[ragboy]

So, I uninstalled and reinstalled the game last night and added all the various patches as suggested on the fan site mentioned earlier in this thread. I actually hit one of the show stopping bugs and couldn't recover. Looks like it's all working nicely now. If anyone else is having problems, I'd suggest going over and reading their forums. They fixed a huge amount of bugs with a community patch.