Two annoying problems with Starfury!

[Taz-in-Space]

Now that I have had Starfury for a few days, I must say that I both like it and am aggravated with it.

The two problems I mentioned in the title are most of the aggravation:

1)The disk I received only will work with the DVD/CD-ROM combo drive on my new computer.

While this is the computer that I planned to use with Starfury, it would have been nice to try it with the old one. However, It will not even load itself!
It spins really fast and vibrates like mad...yet to my eye looks perfectly normal. It does this to a lesser extent even in my new computer's drive.

2) Three times now, I noticed the speed of my vessel slowing to about a tenth of it's normal speed. The speed remains locked until I reload the game at previous save point. Neither the keyboard keys OR a mouse click on the speed guage will coax the speed to change.

This is very annoying at any time, but especially when in a battle or looking for some other ship in a system. In battle you tend to die quickly. (can anyone say sitting duck?)

BTW I was not outside the system boundary's.
Time one: going through a cloud (storm?)
Time two: In battle with enemy destroyer (I died!)
Time three: On my way through the Texas system.
(I was on a time sensitive mission!)

Has anybody else experianced these problems?