I gave NNNester a shot and it did the same thing, it also ran the game worse.

I have concluded that you guys and gals are right and it's probably the save state messing things up. My fault for hex editing it eh?

It's too late too to use my sav file because even using that didn't work and I'm almost certain there would be no information on world map event coordinates saved on a sav file. So I really messed something up. I have an older save probably about an hour back, but I'm sure it'll turn up the same result. I'll just have to wait 'till one of my friends gets to that point and I can grab their copy of the save. Then I can compare the two and edit their sav to match my names and equip.
I'm bad, didn't learn my lesson

Anyway, thanks for all the concern, you guys are great