That's a pretty well-known crash, iirc, and it even happened to me once. It doesn't happen in the PS2 version, to my knowledge. From what I can tell, there's not much you can do really about it except cross your fingers really hard and hope it doesn't happen.

Sounds good.

The differences are pretty big between the two, so I say we should. I dunno who'd run it (I would, but I don't own an Xbox), but someone probably will.

Not quite. Right off the top of my head, I know XL adds two levels (Enchanted Forest and Lonely Mountain) and has a vastly different layout of Molasses Sewers compared to the Xbox version. I'm fairly certain most other things are the same between the two games, but I have not played the original Shrek, so I'm not 100% sure.