I've had this happen a fair bit, but not every time I crash, maybe ever 3-4 times. It has you reset those values every time you crash?
I partially wondered if they did this intentionally, reset to a 'safe' configuration every x crashes, but I haven't seen much consistency with when it is required. I can't imagine why crashing would corrupt the configuration file. Either way, it is really annoying when you crash a lot and none of the config switches make a difference.