I've run into the exact same problem. I've tried on five seperate occasions to sim from 1901 to 2007. Just after the World Series in 1968 (I believe the date is October 8th, 1968), the SISA Scouting box comes up. It gets to 100% and then crashes. I've tried re-downloading the Lahman database but no joy. I will sim up until the last day of the World Series and then upload the saved game to the server but I'm unsure of the address to upload to. What is it?
At any rate, I'm glad it's not just me. That makes me feel better.
BTW, I'm running on Windows XP Home on a 2.0 Ghz Pentium M with 1 GB of RAM.
Thanks.
Edit: Nevermind the FTP question. I didn't see the sticky. Gonna start uploading soon.