Bug in ONE: Akane route.

[Arcane Azmadi]

I've struck an irritating error in ONE. During Akane's route, when Kouhei, Akane, Shiiko and Mio are about to leave school to go to Kouhei's for the Christmas party and it starts to rain -right at the scene transition after Kouhei comments on the rain- I get an error bleep, the text vanishes (as it normally does when scenes transition) but the transition doesn't happen. Upon checking my task manager I can see an error message has appeared, but can't get it to display. If I force quit it the message displays briefly before ONE shuts down; although I can't quite read it (too many kanji in too short a time), it mentions an error "in LoadLayer()". The first time I did this, is also very briefly displayed the next background image and text box, but the bottom 2/3 of the background was missing.

To add some more detail, the music does not stop but I can have no further effect on the interface; I am running with the english patch and this is the 2003 full voice edition. Can someone please help; I've been having enough trouble getting through ONE as it is (for varied reasons) without this crap happening to me just as things are getting interesting!