As far as I know, MiniDumps are completely useless. I hope someone comes along and says different but for us modders they don't seem to serve us any purpose at all.

The minidumps containing the data what is in the memory when the game crashed. To make them readable you need to make an Assambly dechypher.

Thanks guys, I ended up giving up and just randomly finding the typo after screwing about with dump files for about 2 hours... So I can load the .dmp, but it just tells me 'Hey, it screwed up, something about a memory exception pal, but couldn't tell you why!' It's like a redneck mechanic working on a fancy import car.
So, Skyline, or anybody else, I assume this Assembly Decypher thing-a-majig would give the reader whatever symbol sets it needed to make sense of the thing... How might I go about getting one? I think it would be a pretty huge benefit to the modding community as a whole if there was someway to tell what file the game was processing when it crashed... Might help to narrow down those typos a bit faster.

You can enable error logging by changing LogOutput FALSE to LogOutput TRUE in your user.setting file. The log files are saved in the debug folder.

(Your user.setting file is in Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting)

(and your log files are saved in Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Debug)

This will help you find odd changes you made.

Oh holy jesus I love you.