Things like this tend to be system specific, and sometimes even machine specific, so please include platform/os with reports, even I you do not think it relevant. In this case, Home works as it should on my WinXP 3.0b2 (which is fortunate since there is no b3 installer, and may not be).
I am using (x86) Python 3.0b2 on Windows XP Home Edition (SP 3) on an AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+, 2.41 GHz, with 2 GB of RAM. Just to be clear, its when I press HOME in the *editor* window when the crash occurs. There's no problem if I press HOME in the shell window. As soon as the 3.0b3 (or later) installer is released for Windows, I'll check it out again.
The only system difference is that I have an older Athlon cpu. And I did try Home (key above End) in the editor window and it moves cursor to beginning of line. My options/configure/key bindings starts beginning-of-line . So this might be a peculiar interaction with your system. In .a5, I had a crash problem (which someone else reproduced) that disappeared in .b1 without anyone claiming to have done anything to fix the problem, so it seems IDLE can a bit fragile.
The problem seems to have disappeared in the 3.0b3 Windows installer version --- the Home key seems to work as it should. (However, to get IDLE to run at all in 3.03b, I had to apply the fix listed here: http://bugs.python.org/issue3628)
