The download for your update is only 98K the other releases were 600+K.
That's OK: I've reduced the size of the thumbnail image by about 90%. It was bloating the mod way too much -- sorry I didn't notice that before!
When the game loads it crashes with 0.17.8.
Can you give some more details, please? What did you do, what happened? I'd also appreciate if you'd turn on logging, start the game and send me the logfile, perhaps even a savegame. You could PM me on the forum, I've the same user name over there…