I was also having alot of crashes when I first started with VF on my IPOD touch. I have seemed to eliminate the problem for now, I am on my 5th generation family and just had my first set of triplets, yeah!! The one thing I do is always return to the VF menu before hitting the IPOD touch buttom to end the game. If I hit the IPOD touch button without being at the VF menu, the game will freeze/crash the next time I use it. Also if it does freeze or crash, I power down the IPOD and then bring it back up, this seems to be working for me. I do have installed the new Iphone 3.0 software on the touch so I think this procedure would work for you too. Hope this helps.