Everything is done, and merged in master now.
Please note that it is not the cause of issue 144..
I sort of suspect your itemdata, npcdata, and weapon abstraction there, as it is an issue loading some components of the save data, that appear to not exist. It only affects Release builds, so tracking it down is not going to be fun, and you may want to look at some binaries from me to find any issues that are MSVC--8 related.