I have earlier recent saves that I can use, so this is not world shattering ..... but I have encountered three crashes when I exit Dragonreach.
I entered to sell loot to the staff wizard and now I cannot leave: the games gets stuck doing the autosave when I exit the door and I am left
watching the endless tips and trivia that normally show for only a few seconds.

My guess is that the previous save (when I entered) was corrupted, but immediately fatal. Any suggestions?

If you're on a patched version of the game patch 1.02 has save issues, corrupting all saves after the patch.

Um, the 1.02 patch (for the PC and X-Box) isn't supposed to be out until tomorrow - well, three hours from now, I guess.

Well maybe just bad luck. I still wouldn't patch until 1.03 because of the bugs in the ps3 patch.