I'm so enamored with the Endurance Run that I just have to get myself a copy of Persona 3.  I'd been obsessively checking Amazon wanting to get the game but not wanting to waste $30 on a third party seller (the cheapest).  Apparently while I was sleeping Amazon got it new at $20.  So I want to buy it, and I'm so impatient I'll get One-Day Shipping for only 5 extra dollars, bringing it to $29.97 with tax and shipping.  Possibly because...
  I have a question.  I'd played a few hours of P3Fes when I got it from GameFly, but on many loading screens the game would freeze for up to an hour on my backwards compatible 80g PS3.  I wasn't sure if this was a bad copy from GameFly or my PS3, as only about 2 people seemed to be having this problem online.  I still bet it was my system and I hear that normal ol' P3 might work better.  Are the upgrades FES made enough to make me risk buying a dud?  NOTE: Neither game is supposed to have issues on the compatability list.

  I'm so enamored with the Endurance Run that I just have to get myself a copy of Persona 3.  I'd been obsessively checking Amazon wanting to get the game but not wanting to waste $30 on a third party seller (the cheapest).  Apparently while I was sleeping Amazon got it new at $20.  So I want to buy it, and I'm so impatient I'll get One-Day Shipping for only 5 extra dollars, bringing it to $29.97 with tax and shipping.  Possibly because...
  I have a question.  I'd played a few hours of P3Fes when I got it from GameFly, but on many loading screens the game would freeze for up to an hour on my backwards compatible 80g PS3.  I wasn't sure if this was a bad copy from GameFly or my PS3, as only about 2 people seemed to be having this problem online.  I still bet it was my system and I hear that normal ol' P3 might work better.  Are the upgrades FES made enough to make me risk buying a dud?  NOTE: Neither game is supposed to have issues on the compatability list.

Sounds like a corrupted save.  Those things happen even on the 60 gig.  If you decide to take the plunge, you may want to create a clean virtual memory card for your games.  Keep several running and don't just keep saving over the same one.

I went ahead and got FES and it seems that you were exactly right, and I'm taking your advice on multiple virtual memory cards.  Thanks for the help, and it's a great game!