Can I force LRM to save current work to the catalog?

I had the unpleasant experience of working for a couple of hours on LRM3 (Win7, 64bit) on multiple photos and then had a OS crash - the famous windows blue screen. As a consequence all the changes that I had done were lost even though the catalogue was intact.
Is there a way to force a "save to catalogue" every now an again while working. I do this typically in MS Word if I'm writig something important and I've just written some brilliant words that I'm not likely to be able to do again. Is there something similar in LRM? AFAIK only work around is to close the program and open it again. Sucks.
On a related note, does anyone know what algorithm LRM uses to write changes to the catalogue?

Virtual copies exist, if they exist at all, in the DB. That is, they have nothing really to do with the physical image file on-disk.  Still, once you create the virtual copy those changes would be committed. Perhaps if you did a bulk creation of virtual copies (say, via the Add to Collection gesture) you might lose all those copies if the timing was just right.  But if you had done any work on those copies, those copies and the changes made to them should have been committed after only a few seconds.
You never really said what you did to recover from the failure. From your description of the problem it looks like you opened up a backup of the catalogue, or an older version of the catalogue replaced the main catalogue file. You don't happen to have automatic versioning services enabled on this machine, do you? Is the catalogue stored on a local volume, or is it stored on some remote or network volume?
But, to answer your main question, there is no gesture to "save" anything other than metadata because there simply isn't a need to save anything.  If you make a gesture that affects the image, that change is stored in the DB within moments as part of the processing pipeline that will be applied upon export.
Failure to do this would be a serious defect, so you should work logically form the known to the unknown to rule out the obvious issues. Not just because it can happen again, but could happen to other data on this system unrelated to Lightroom.

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