Come to think of it, I wonder if it's related to another annoying issue I've been having. I was playing around with the optimization settings, and now, every time I try to reload a save, it drops me back into my apartment, rather than the scene I was on. No further settings reversions fix it.
To tell the truth, as much as I love the design of the game, the constant stability issues are making it very hard to continue. Breaking bugs like these and unclear story choices force me to constantly start over, and I can never get particularly far in the various story threads.