I "think" I've found some or all of the problem.

I unistalled the game (for the second time since buying it) and reinstalling.

This time paying attention to what I was doing.

I got an error on loading one of the components.

I cleaned the disk, reiserted, hit retry and the game installed.

Though the game would still not load the last 3 game saves, I was able
to talk to Louis without crashing. Unfortunately it was late and could not do anything else.
We old guys need our rest. LOL

A couple of questions.

I did alot of the Robbers Cave stuff. Could not having received the quest about the robbers from
Louis caused the problems with the game saves? ( taking a shot here. LOL)

Since the disk does have a problem, where do I find out how to send it back\
and get a replacement?

Thanks.