I too have had a Rapture Pro involved in a Sonar Platinum crash - couple of weeks ago, did not have time to pursue replicating or diving into it.
I ALWAYS insert the new synth, then alter midi and audio routing assignments to point audio/midi tracks to the new synth, prior to deleting the old one, and that just seems a bit cleaner to me than doing an actual replace.
The ONLY time I have locked up Sonar was when doing so with Rapture Pro, so given these other crashes, it would appear that something is up that needs some replicating steps and a bug report filed. If nobody else does it prior to my getting some free time tomorrow, I will put some time and effort into seeing if I can break it and capture some sort of crash recipe that can be passed on to the Bakers.
Bob Bone