A new career save game problem?

[Redbear]

Hi all. I'm about ready to do a reload of the game (again), but before I do I was wondering if anyone else has ever experienced this one: I had been progressing through a career with no problems, and was up to August 1940. I loaded the latest save from the career screen and just after getting the 'initializing' message, the screen went black, followed by a CTD. OK I thought, it happens, so I restarted the game and when I went to the saved career screen I noticed that the latest save had the correct date, but the PREVIOUS save now had the current date (as if it happened later than the most recent save). I tried loading an EARLIER save, to get behind the 'problem' and it kept happening, always changing the save prior to the one I was trying to load to the current date. I finally dumped my old career folder and started a new one. The first save out of port went OK, but when I tried to load it today, the same thing happened. Now my first save 'in mission' is dated 8/21/11 (correct) and the 'in base before mission' is dated 9/3/11! Every load of the latest save gives me a black screen - CTD. No recent mods, etc. to cause any changes. Anyone seen that before?