Ship Design changes when game closes

So every time i play GalCiv2 (I have only the gold edition) it crashes but im used to that now that i've owned it for a year or so. But a problem kept happening and i posted this on 'game talk' but i thought it would fit better in 'bugs'. The problem: Every time the game crashes, The game changes the ship designs. So if i chose Terran Alliance ships it would change to Thalan Empire. I notice it goes down on the list. Terran turns to thalan, thalan turns to torian, torian turns to yor, then yor turns to korath. The other ship designs dont change interestingly enough... How do i get the game to keep my ships and not change them? I've tried re-installing and even taking the game off and putting it back on but it continues to piss me off.