Regardless, I don't think starting a new game is going to fix everything. The freezing for instance is most likely still going to be there which svcks because is the only thing keeping me from playing NV.
Only a fool would think that for a game this size and the amount of content within it that by the second patch that all the bugs will be forever gone.
Even with their older games like Oblivion and Fallout3, there still is lethal bugs. You just learn to work around them.
Also, you have to consider that there is issues with the Havok version they used and the company that owns Havok no longer supports the version this game uses.
Plus, you have the variation of hardware for PS3 that is out there due to different hardware builds. I honestly am curious if people started to list is they had the PS3 Slim or one of the older ones and see if it can be traced to a hardware/software conflict.
The ps3 version i use is the 160 GB CECHPxx or CECHQxx (north America release) and use the F:NV USA BLUS-30500