That's very odd, I've never heard of this sort of issue happening before and being so persistent...
My recommendation would be to try starting up a new game completely and see if it lets you do that, but if that fails, try uninstalling the game entirely and make sure all of its files are gone. Then reinstall and see if it works without crashing. My guess is that it may be trying to read really old KT files you may have installed...or it could've had hidden problems during the installation process.
If all that still doesn't work, you might have to just play the game on a PC/Mac, unfortunately.