Gotta Love "Backwords Compatibility" Issues

I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the new game Alan Wake for the Xbox 360 next week; I've got my GameFly queue all ready for it t be sent to us.

In the meantime, however, I'm wanting to just play something for fun. I was playing Elder Scrolls: Arena (yeah, the very FIRST Elder Scrolls game that's contemporary with, I don't know, DOOM!) on my laptop, but that got me itching to retry Morrowind again. Since my original Xbox is all boxed up, I broke out my Game of the Year Edition to play on my 360.

Now to be fair, GotYE isn't on the list of backwards-compatible games, but the original Morrowind IS. I started up my character and went and joined the Mages Guild. I went through some of my duties, and was having a good time. Then this morning I left to take Cassandra to school. I came back, loaded up my disc, waited for the long wait while the emulator got itself set up to run the game....

... and watched the 360 freeze while trying to load my saved game.

I tried again.

And again.

Again.

Grrrrr...

I cleared my cache. Twice. Waited 10 minutes at one point, and kept getting the message that the game won't work...

... and answered with "YOU WERE JUST WORKING FINE THIS MORNING YOU PIECE OF $H!T!!!"

VERY upset (could you tell?) I tried to load an older saved game under the irrational thought of "maybe something's wrong with this area!"

... and it WORKED.

For a while.

Then later, I died (ok, my character, y'knew what I meant!). I went to reload my game.

ERROR MESSAGE!!!!

AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!

Still trying to resolve the issue.

End of Demented Rambling.