Logic Crashing on File- Open Workaround... Sort of.

Question

This subject has gotten a bit of attention over the weekend with no real explaination or resolution.
I have managed to find a partial workaround though that at least allows me to record:
1) Open Logic
2) Choose File->New...
3) Select no Template, and name your file.
4) Close current song before -> Close
5) The new file opens and you can record and save as usual.
However, attempting to insert Audio crashes Logic badly without the nice little message that tells you it crashed.
It seems that any function that brings up an Open or Save dialog causes the crash to happen. Don't select any option that requires you to choose a Save or Open file and it won't crash. If you need to import an audio track, drag it from the Finder and do not use the Import Audio feature.
There's no telling what else will make Logic crash in this state, but if you've been not recording all weekend like me, this might get you doing something useful.
Anyone else have any useful workarounds to this serious problem?

Answer 1

No shapeshifter installed.
I worked on solving the problem using my main account, trying to figure out what files were causing the conflict. Things that I found and removed are:
~/Library/Save Preferences (with some Logic related files in it)
Don't know what this is/was, but I didn't create it, and I don't think it was contributing to the crashing.
~/Library/InputManagers/ViInputManager
Someone suggested I remove any input manager I had installed. This was the only one that I found.
~/Library/MIDI Drivers/MIDI Monitor.plugin
Can't remember what this is or why its there. So I removed it.
These VST Plugins:
BIAS Freq4
Bouncy (OS X)
bs-spectrum.vst
Carbon MDA VST Effects
Cyanide 2
freeverb-c
Freq-2
Frohmage_VST2Carbon
H2O
Inspector
mda JX10
Ohm Force
PlogueRebuilder.vst
PolyFractus Resonator 1.01b
S(m)exoscope
SupaPhaser
vbox SE 1.21
I wasn't ever really using these, but they did seem to pass the initial scan by Logic. Perhaps something in the scan causes a problem. I didn't need them and didn't feel like doing the "conflict catcher" swap all night. I doubt they were causing the problem anyway.
Components:
ExSlAugustusLoop.component
ExSlMeringue.component
MadShifta.component
Wasn't using these either so I removed them too.
The thing I think really resolved the problem, and I tried this before when running through Apple's troubleshooting list, was removing the logic cache files from:
~/Library/Caches/Logic
Perhaps something in here was corrupt from having the 3rd party AUs and VSTs installed. More than one person mentioned they had numerous problems with 3rd party extensions, and even though I didn't really use them, they were apparently installed and possibly in the way somehow.
There are many more files that I removed that may or may not have been the actual resolution. I find it inconclusive to simply remove everything and have it all working again, considering I could have actually helped Apple diagnose, resolve, and document this particular issue.
Yes, my question has been answered. Mostly by me and my own determination, and in no way that is particularly useful to anyone except to know they aren't the only person having this kind of problem.