Allin,
I just installed gretl 1.9.2csv (http://gretl.sourceforge.net/win32/) and it works!
It is obviously something with the last snapshot. 
Manny

> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 14:43:00 -0400
> From: cottrell@wfu.edu
> To: gretl-users@lists.wfu.edu
> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl crashes
>
> On Thu, 2 May 2013, Manny B wrote:
>
> > I send you a picture of the problem. The message with the
> > picture waits for the moderator approval because its
> > big!Manny
>
> OK, thanks, got it. But so far I have no idea why this should
> be happening.
>
> In case anyone else on Windows is in a position to test: Manny
> has the main gretl window open full-screen; he has opened the
> model specification dialog on top of the main window, and is
> moving the dialog left to right by dragging its title bar when
> he gets the "gretlw32.exe has encountered a problem" message.
>
> Allin Cottrell
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