Well bad news guys. :sad:
It seems that the save got corrupted again and this time I haven't been able to fix it. Even loading from an earlier point still causes a CTD. I might have accidentally screwed something else up when I editted the end date, but I'm not sure.
anyway it doesn't look like I'll be able to continue any further since it crashes after about a week, but maybe someday when I have a better idea of what I'm doing I'll try another Cold War AAR