Can't even force quit? That is impressive. How are you killing the application? restart? logging out, then back in again? kill -9? I ask this, because if you are using the last option, it implies that you know what the command line is, which might make things a bit easier.
I assume that if you are force quitting, then you are not gettinga blackbox file, da? (located in ~/, and called blackbox.txt). If you are getting a blackbox, post it. Also, try the following:
Find Terminal.app (it should be in /Applications/Utilities), and fire that up. At the prompt:
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$ cd [the directory where Darwinia is located]/Darwinia.app/Contents/MacOS/
$ ./Darwinia
It should spit out several lines of text, and launch Darwinia. Once it has done that, play Darwinia as you normally would, and if/when it crashes, look to see if anything has been outputted to the terminal. You might be able to find the same information by running Console.app, and looking through the logs, but I have honestly never tried that.
Also, what are your system specs. iMac? PowerBook? MacMini? RAM? video card? proc speed? &c.
One other idea -- if you are using a Mac, the default settings are to use a one-button mouse. From my experience, a two-button mouse will work with the default setup, but can behave oddly at times. Find ~/Library/Application Support/Darwinia/full/preferences.txt, and set ControlMouseButtons = 2 (the default on Macs is 1).
At any rate, I am kind of stabbing in the dark on this one. Let me know if anything comes of these suggestions.
xander