The .9 version worked fine. It's only after I added the update that it's crashing.Well... if you are ambitious - make a copy of a RenPy game you know works. Remove everything from the copy's 'game' folder. Copy everything from 'game' folder of My New Neighbor and put it in the copy's 'game' folder. And try again.
That has been known to work for people who are having trouble with updated RenPy versions. :>)