Spore was never very stable, is it known if the Gog versions is more stable or not?

I find myself regularly (but unpredictably) crashing upon dying/respawning when in creature phase.

Save game is ok, or risk of corrupted save?

The only real issues that I've had in terms of stability is I'm unable to maintain a stable connection with the EA servers as I play the game. I've gotten annoyed as well so I manualy download 1000+ of other peoples creations.

Save game is okay from when I had last remembered to save. The game doesn't autosave at all.

Just for info: you already tried to run the game as admin, win xp compatibility mode and so on?

The creature phase is pretty crash-prone, but the rest of the game has been fairly stable so far.

Yep, only crashed in creature phase. And only when I died/respawned. Not the worst stability -- but an irritating one.

I would say the stability appears worse. I've had a few crashes already, and they're completely random :s

The creature phase is indeed very unstable when respawning. But I also discovered that this only happened when I clicked the green checkmark to continue. When pressing the ESC button it never crashed.