Opening Drawings alongside Referenced Drawings leading to Crashes

Hi all,

Draftsight crashes upon opening a drawing and it's referenced (x-ref) drawing in one session. After observing that any drawing, if referenced to a second  drawing and opened causes draftsight to crash, I resorted to closing the second drawing every time I needed to open the first (referenced) drawing. But crashes continue even if one opens then closes the drawing and then opens the xref drawing the same session. Only after exiting DS, can the xref dwg be opened. This doesn't seem right. What could be the cause? Any help would be great.