No, unfortunately 1.00.02 is also causing max to crash - in the same way.
it seems related to the material editor, which when opened causes max to hang after a few minutes.
If I open a Corona scene, Max works ok, and can even render out at low resolution. However if the render finishes, or you cancel the render, a second attempt to render the scene also causes a crash - though in this instance, a max error message appears, allowing a recovery save.
As previously, the free version works fine.