ha yeah, its not hardware
it is something with the encoding, but the freeze patch for 3 and 4 supposedly detected when it got stuck, or right before it got stuck, and fix it. maybe i should find those old installers and install 3, then 4, then the patch, then 5. dont know where i could find the old versions or patch though
on a side note, when i received my email from techimo saying you had replied, your username was alink

thought that was funny