Hi all. I went back to the game after maybe a day, just to check on them, and it took many minutes to load, then crashed with the "fatal error" and the soft rest when I tried to move somebody. So I figured that this particular game file was finished. I've managed to restart the game, and then start a brand new game. However, it's annoying that the "menu" screen doesn't come up right away, but that the "loading game" and then the current game starts, and you have to click the menu to start a new game, especially since I knew that my old game was crashing the palm. If the menu came up right away, I could have started a new game without entering the old one, and running the risk of crashing.
Oh, and somehow crashing killed the Z71's ability to hotsync too...I looked it up on Palmone.com, and found out that charging the palm while in an unstable mode can kill the hotsync, so I had to do a manual soft reset. All seems to be working okay now.
Just fyi for anyone out there.
-Ally