How much memory does your computer have?
I had a lot of problems with Vue crashing.
I had 1 GByte of physical memory.
I upgraded my computer to 4 GBytes of memory
and now Vue is a lot more stable, haven't had
any crashes so far.
I use Windows XP Pro, and one thing I noticed
when I looked at the Task Manager is that when
rendering, Vue uses over 2 GBytes of memory,
so that might explain why it kept crashing when
I only had 1 GByte of actual memory.