2 ways to freeze/hang: slaver boss and meteor strikes

[Urist]

2 ways to freeze/hang my game anyhow.

1

* slaver battle master .. rushed down to him with a lvl 18 warrior, got out of the dialog, fought, killed him, pressed auto-explore. char runs to the 'control pool/pit' on the far side of the ring and the game hangs, the mouse responds but it accepts no input.
- also had this happen with an arcane blade. very annoying but at least it reproduced easily.

2

* get a meteor strike that lands on you / lands where you are going. can't really say i know where or how they are supposed to come but i've had 4 of them in my tome games so far and half the time i had a game-ending hang where the mouse responds but it accepts no input. i only remember the last one's location, it was Daikara[4]

last time this happened i discovered the te4_log, scrolled to the end but saw nothing pertinent.

I can deal with #1, but #2 is starting to make me paranoid cause meteor strikes can seem to happen anywhere. since i'm new i dont have many guys past lvl 20, and all i can piece together is that the strikes happen around the time i'm lvl 18.

i take it that these are known problem that just exceeded my search-fu (impaired, -5 by annoyance, -3 by lost time)