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Installed 32-bit version, imported everything of significance. No freeze anymore. So that's that.
If you can be bothered I'd still like to hear what was causing the problem. That's a pretty please with sugar on top too. I hate loose ends.
EDIT:
@rseiler - that is a 64-bit you were using?
Going to give it another shoot by re-installing the x64 ver. Will check back tomorrow, this is not what I had planned this evening 
Thanks for giving a hand my Opera comrade.
Tried it without extensions, cookies, JavaScript and plug-ins and it still freezes. My only way out it to shut Opera down manually. OS is Win 7.
Reddit post: http://redd.it/2cp9vw
Any old Opera vets still around to help me root out the prob?
Is working fine on the rest of the site. I am thinking it's maybe a special character somewhere or faulty page code which other browsers don't mind but our last true Opera can't handle. I'm also suspicious of the comment half page down containing text inside a box with a horizontal scroll bar.
I hope it's a 5-10 min job tops for you guys to pinpoint it, I wouldn't dare ask for more. If anything you could confirm or refute the issue so I would have something to work with. Thanks.