Well to start, for the first time last night i played the game for 4 hours with no problems at all, today i start my computer and go to play and the game continues to lock up heres the details.

After logging into the game while looking at the ship/space windows my system locks up within 5-10 seconds flat, sometimes i get a screwed up graphic sometime just go back etc etc, if i open the navigation window i have no issues until i go back to the other window.

I have attempted the following

Replaced my ATI Radeon 9200 card itself with a known working card
Tried an older driver ( Software )
Tweked settings in video card
Reloaded Vendetta

Anyone have any idea here what may work to get the game going?

System Spec's

AMD Athlon XP 2600
Kingston 1 Gig Xtreme Memory PC3200
80 Gig Seagate Sata Hard Drive
Asus A7V8X Motherboard
ATI Radeon 9200
SB Audigy 1 Sound Card
Connecting Via 3 Meg Cable Modem Through a Belkin Router

Background programs
Norton Antivirus 2004
Axis print System
Disabled XP Firewall