Out of interest - with this version and not locking it to Landscape - does it still crash on rotate? I made a couple of little changes that I thought might fix it but I couldn't replicate the problem with any hardware I had or the emulator.
I can't seem to make it crash, but that said, I can't seem to get it to auto-rotate (auto-rotate setting is on "default"). I do however think that this is an issue with my phone though, as sometimes the auto-rotate feature is a bit flakey (I'm running LeeDroid and I botched something up a few weeks ago).
Cheers,
Matt.