Sorry to hear.
"I dont understand how these issues havent been ironed out after all these years."
That's partly because EA "does't support ME game anymore" (!). Yes, I've heard that line numerous times from ea.help customer support after I try to elevate when they haven't come up with a fix for my issue. So we only get Origin changes, which if anything, make things worse for ME since any resulting newly introduced bugs aren't addressed.
Config tool crashes? Wow, something odd between Origin, ME, and your PC. But you can play ME1, ME2, and ME3, it is just the import that fails?
Since you obviously have been willing to go the extra mile, here's one last ditch thing you may consider trying:
Install on another PC (or have a friend install) and just try the import on that one (did they already have you try making a new user account on your PC?). Not sure that solves anything since you still would have to take the resulting new ME3 save file and get it to work back on your PC...
Yeah the games play fine, but I end up losing out because I can't import from one game to another.
The only workaround I have found is to take my information from the ME2 save, open it up in Gibbed editor, then create a new save in ME3, then copy over the settings the best I can manually from the ME2 save.
