I'm pretty much done with MoM for now. It was quite fun for a few hours, but although ever game is different it is also largely the same. Explore, expand, exterminate. Repeat.

Anyway, I found an active MoM forum here: http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=56

Also found a fan-made patch for the game - it actually does fix a number of crash issues, plus a number of in-game features: http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4211

It made the AI harder to beat and also seemed to make neutral cities and marauding monsters actually mean something. Still, it's a fairly simple game, so once you've found a working strategy just stick to it and you'll win.