All was well till I saved & exited.  About 370 turns & 30 cities.  Sorry, don't have much info from the time of the BSOD.  It died as I was exiting.

Later loading the save game,    debug.err      http://pastebin.ca/1933989

crash zip file at     http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8928343/Elemental1_07-2010-09-05T16-46-32-546.zip

bad save game at     http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8928343/QuickSave-bad.EleSav

event viewer says "Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    Application Error
Event Category:    None
Event ID:    1000
Date:        09/05/10
Time:        16:46:33
User:        N/A
Computer:    SYS-3
Description:
Faulting application elemental.exe, version 1.0.7.0, faulting module elemental.exe, version 1.0.7.0, fault address 0x003cac85."