It's a plain old xbox lol, not the 360. I didn't look at the model numbers, but it is the one that was released around Christmas 04 with the top spin/ncaa football 2005 on one disc, not sure if that helps any. I did buy the disc used off of ebay, and while it has some surface scratches none of them look serious enough to be detrimental to game play, but to be on the safe side, and since I assumed it was a disk problem I rented the game today and tried with a different disc only to see the same results. A few days ago I also went and deleted all the old game saves for older games that I am no longer playing, so I don't believe that's the problem either. The games either I or my husband have played recently have been Halo 1 and 2, Fable, Kotor 1, and Crimson Skies all without a single problem. I am really at my wits end, and since I was really enjoying the game before all this frustrating s**t happened I really just don't know what to do. I read some where(don't ask me where since I have been everywhere google will take me looking for an answer to this problem)that you can work through some of the glitches by clearing the cache on the xbox, and to do this you load 3 different games to their start screen before starting the game you want to play, so I am off to try that. Wish me luck!
Nicole
eta clearing the cache got me the cut scene I needed and brought me right into the conversation with Atris which I always had to start manually before. I am almost afraid to be hopeful but I will continue playing and hope that nothing like this happens again.