I likely will tonight, once I've returned home from taking a final. I'm reluctant to but I figure it should be safe if I avoid any Online contact while going through the system restore.
Oddly enough, one of the items patched was a "Games freeze during intro movie" complaint. Hm. Now they just freeze during the exit movie. I'm actually thinking this part's the root of the problem. I guess that's -one- way to fix it.
