Well color me baffled. (please no "behind" references!) I got my game working again, using a lot of patience. I had to go back NINE saves to find one that worked!!!! Why so many back-ups? This same thing has happened before. I've learned to make continuous back-ups from departure to re-arrival in port, including saving right outside port. I've never had to go so deep into backed up games before. The non-working games straddled 3 days of saves. What in the world could have wacked games so far back? One possible co-incidence (to some one with the knowledge of 1's and 0's to look into it), both times this happened I had to go back to a game I saved before a port attack I made "because it was there." But why not an immediate crash? What could retro-actively cause games to become corrupted??