What happens if you leave Sonar down for a moment, and try to run Dim Pro in stand alone mode and work through some different patches. Does it work OK that way?
And, is it possible the disk drive you have Dim Pro sample content on might be one of those 'green' drives? For some reason, sometimes these seem to confuse Sonar.
And, you might check the Windows Event Viewer, when a crash occurs, to see if something is being reported there.
Lastly, what sample rate is Dim Pro set to use, and what sample rate is your project using? There are some micro-host hot keys for both Rapture and Dim Pro, that can adjust the sample rate, and you might want to make sure those are in sync. I don't know if that would cause it to fail, I just always have made mine the same.
Bob Bone