Yes the crashing programme is called maya LOL.
I think I mentioned in a post a couple of months back that if you have a dodgy file its best to save it as an .MA although the file size is bigger, its cleaner. It particularly helps uvs from breaking too in an MB file format.
anyway what do I know, Im just a seasoned pro LOL
Jay
And export an OBJ of your model data. At least then if you lose the ma file, you at least keep your models.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.