[Gozra]

I had a similar problem Last week. On a LAN 5 of us were playing a TCP/IP game and one of the players surrendered to a neutral. I think he had done the same thing you did. He was trying to ask the little AI to surrender to him. this may be a bug to watch out for. What I did to solve the problem is go in as the host and get your friends big empire to surrender to the small Empire. Then your friend will have control of his Empire again. Or if you have the previous turns saved go back and redo look in the temp file. This was the best I could figure out in the situation I was in as we had done several turns past the point of surrender. If you can redo the surrender turn that would be best. Good luck if you need details e-mail me.