[Dogfish40]

First off, I want to thank you both for responding, this is one of those strange quirky problems that can only happen in SH.

Stevepine; I've been around for a little while now, and at first I was thinking the same, as nobody was running to help. I think 0rpheus is right though, it's difficult to look at a problem like this and just run and help out. I really love this little community here and will always hope that the Kaluens and Skippers are always going to be here for each other, 'cause we ain't gettin' no help from you know who.
0rpheus, thanks for your input, I did use some of this advise and will also take several other things into consideration.
Unfortunately, I had to quite literally Punt. I made fresh copies of all the mods to wipe out any corruption and made a new mods folder. I wrote that I could get into the game if the mods were disabled, this was not so. I had to do another install then find the patch, 'cause the auto patching from UBISOFT doesn't seem give you 1.2.
Now, after all that, I finally got into the tutorial mission which allowed me access to delete game saves. [By the way 0rpheus, you must tell me how to stop ubisoft from saving my games, I didn't see that option. Where is it?]
After deleting ALL my game saves, (just in case any were corrupted), I started the first mission. Tonight I will start putting the mods back in.
Yes, and I'm staying away from the "Slower Walking" mod, it's not that important. That's not saying anything bad about the mod itself, I don't want to give that impression, it might not even be the cause. I had a lot of saved games. It could be that it finally was too much. Anyway, after deleting the game saves, I started playing but realized at 2:00 this morning that I had to get that 1.2 patch into the game quick and that's where I left off.
I will report more as this goes along as I think it's an important issue. My game was running and looking really great, and then...bang...this happens for seemingly no reason.
I'll post tomorrow how the game responds when I reintroduce the mods.
0rpheus/Stevepine, Danke und Gute Jagd.
D40