New 360 and Freezing Forza

My 360 did arrive on Thursday as scheduled. Actually, it wasn't my 360, it was a refurbished 360 sent "to expedite the repair of your console" or some such phrase. The fact that it was a different 360 comes into play in a bit.

Microsoft was also nice enough to send along a 1 month extension to my Live membership. It's not much but it's something.

Interestingly, there was a orange slip of paper that was some kind of quality checklist stating what was done to the unit and how it was packed... I'm not really sure what all was done to it as the checklist was in Spanish.

So, on with the games, right? Almost. Got to play Halo 3 finally. Yes, I suck at Halo 3, I was able to confirm that. All other games seem to play just fine... with the exception of Forza 2. Almost every race I've done with it ends in a freeze. The console simply freezes up and won't respond to anything but powering down. This never happened with the old 360, just this new one, as if the freezing is component-dependent. Turn 10 doesn't admit to this on their forums, so it looks like I have no recourse or fix. I probably just won't play this game anymore... it's very frustrating to get 6 laps into a 7 or 8 lap race, and then have the game freeze. Grr.