The hang-up is just before the steps to the castle. Now when I say hang-up I don't mean the game is freezing...my character's reflection moves at the edge of the pond, and the last wasp/bee slowly flutters around, leaves the screen, and that's it.
I recently had some problems with my XP home and did a system restore. I wonder if I buggered up the patch doing that, because it wasn't until I rolled back my system that I lost quicksave.2

Before I do this, what problems will I encounter if I update now? I will pull my best savefile out of the game folder, is there anything else I should look for?
Thank you