okay when you save baker, the realistic looking fmv freeze but the dialog is still going however after the scene the game just hangs, I'm using 3.71 m33-4, I'm not using popsloader and I have combined the two disks into one eboot.

mine froze at that exact same part, i just skipped it the next time i played it, you shouldnt have any problems with the rest, i can tell you that its not much your missing