4D - Space monster made game unplayable.

I got the random event for the space monster, which is supposed to wreck havoc on the galaxy, but the game started acting wierd at that point. The event happened during next turn processing (of course), but the next turn processing did not give me any completions or change the date. As best as I can tell it didn't even add production to the projects being worked on at any of my planets. But my ships got their moves. Then I hit "turn" again, and again there were no project or research completions, but this time I got the music for the GNN research completion event. This time the date got updated, but there were no project completion displays, and again I could not find any projects that looked like any had had any production added to them. I have a save before the space monster and one after the date changed, which I am sending to Cari in the hopes that she will be able to find something. I am also going to try restarting both saves just to see what they produce.