The closeDWG setting in the spool.ini only applies to the last spool that is processed. We often spool 25+ spools at a time, which often locks or crashes autocad. Suggested options:
1) create bspool, so that when it runs, it runs in the background and never makes itself the current window. it's impossible to work in AutoCAD when it is spool, but also hard to work in any other application as AutoCAD will make itself the active window repeatedly through the process.
2) modify the "closedwg" option to close each drawing as it is spools (before it starts to process the next spool.dwg), currently, when the Closedwg is set to 1, it only closes the very last spool processed. perhaps closing windows as it goes will help to minimize crashes.