Just about every time I go into ZE ANM mode, the dang thing crashes. Sometimes, it waits long enough to crash so that I can animate something. More often then less it just crashes as soon as I press the button. It seems so random. Has anybody else experienced this problem?

Else I'm going to delete all my dmi elevator animations and start over again I'm thinking perhaps something got corrupted or something...

It happens to me a lot when I'm trying to work in anim mode in a screen where a lot of objects are present. I usually try and be careful about rotating the camera and saving often as I create keyframes, and while it'll still crash it'll be less of an issue. Can't say what causes it although I've made some guesses (none of which I have any real solution to). My best guess would simply be an issue related to the editor rendering objects onscreen.

... That being said, you can move objects to a temporary layer and make that layer invisible.

Yeah that seems to be the problem, I could either do what teancum said, or just turn off the display objects button.

Not sure if it would help, but you could also lower the visibility: