Chocobo Race (Free Runs) freezing/hanging up

I tried e-mailing about this and got no help, and I can't get to chat support. So here I am.

I play FFXI on a Playstation 2.

Every once in a while, when I run a free run of a chocobo race, the cutscene of the race will freeze on the spectators watching the race. It won't switch back to the chocobos running. I have to force a shut down of my console when this happens. When I log back in and try to re-run the race, the same thing happens again and again, and it won't stop. I usually have to wait until the next day to continue racing, hoping it won't happen again.

It mainly seems to be whenever I am about to WIN a race. I ran five races in a row, getting second place in all of them, and finally I got to one where I was winning, and it froze. As you can imagine, this is extremely frustrating because I never get my chocobucks for winning a race, now.

It will still happen now and again to those that I'm going to win second place, but it's most common for first place victory races. I don't want this to be happening if I run an official race.

I'm assuming something is wrong with the particular file involved in that race cutscene, but I have no idea how to fix it.

Thank you.

I tried tightening my network adapter since it was a little loose and it still didn't help anything. It's still happening. Is there a way I can check/repair FFXI files?

Am I going to have to reinstall?

EDIT: I found the File Repair and discovered the game had some corrupted files. I repaired them and ran another race, and instead of freezing, it just crashed to a black screen this time. If this is a hardware problem I would really like to know. I'd really like some advice or some suggestions or something.

Please?

Edit 2: Problem persists if I plug ethernet directly into the modem instead of my router. I've been reading that other people are having this exact same problem. These problems did not exist a few years ago when I used to play before. I came back less than a few days ago to a bunch of bugs. I heard it's not just PS2 either.

It happens when I talk to certain NPCs, too. I heard that other people have this problem as well. Looks as if it's been going on for months with no fix.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/ar.../t-10479.html?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/ar...hp/t-623.html?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/ar.../t-15622.html?

Called technical support about it. He told me to open a port range, so I did. The problem continued.

I made myself a static IP address. Still happens.

If I log back in after forcing a shut down, zone, log out, then back in again, it will "skip" the race for me and allow me to run another, and even gives me the chocobucks I was supposed to earn. I suppose this will do as a temporary solution.

At the moment, on the ps2 client there are numerous things that will either hang for a long period of time, or freeze altogether. As for chocobo racing, that happened to me last night, but after letting it hang for a couple minutes it continued