The "hiccup" as you put it is on disc two, and it happened ever since it did it the first time, now i can't get farther in the game. I DID have saved games beyond that point but the game was lost after XP was put it, so i totally had to reistall the game, and now i can't pass that part. and that is the only way to go at that point in the game. *sniff,sniff*