update for those interested:
uninstalled all mods and loaded the ttw clean save with Steven. COC'd to PL and had no issues with the boxes.
installed all mods and had them again.
Now here is the interesting part: i am going through 1 by 1 in a meticulous way to find out what the culprit is that it would affect even a clean, brand new save. What's interesting is I may have "solved" it in a rudimentary way. Now, instead of crashing the game, it hangs for about 1 second and then opens. The same 0000000 error in call script shows up in the console yet doesn't hang the game.
This was done by unchecking ttw_clean delux and, unfortunately, jsawyers.
so here's my hypothesis: using jsawyers expired stimpak script probably ran the very second that i looked at the first aid kit, and the script may have failed because of a number of reasons, number one being that it was never meant for ttw in the first place. thoughts?
