Okay, so I did a few tests, and was not able to replicate the crashes. What I did was fire up the sim, check I had two profiles, a “default” which was in use, and a “SPAD test” one that was not, so I delete the SPAD one. I fired up the G36 and was able to use all three levers successfully.
I shut the sim down, and checked the folder structure. I now have the original profile folder which is empty, plus a second folder which is also empty.
A third folder was created when I created a new copy of the default profile, and this has the new file layout.

