Issue with Expansion Draft - Game now stuck!

[dflem]

I've been running a historical league for 37 seasons and everything has run nearly perfect including several league expansions and expansions drafts. However, this morning I got to the 1997 expansion draft and here is the sequence of events.
1. I created my Protected List and submitted.
2. Started the draft just like I had with all the other expansion drafts.
3. Noticed that strangely the expansion draft did not start but the regular player draft did. The regular draft included the AZ D Backs and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays like it was supposed to. Thought this was odd but continued the draft like normal.
4. Finished the draft, went to proceed to the next stage and received a notification stating that the expansion draft had not been completed and I would be taken to the main draft screen.
5. I click OK and it takes me to the main draft screen but the Draft Order and Rules page is blank, the Continue Draft page is blank, and the Draft log page lists the log for the regular draft.
6. I looked and noticed that all of my unprotected players were still on the roster and the two expansion teams only had the seven players they picked up in the normal draft.

Now I am in this continual look. The game won't let me move forward until I finish the draft, but I can't finish the draft because none of the options are there to start the draft. I'd really hate to play a good 36 season historical league only to have it messed up by a glitch. Is there a fix, a workaround, etc. I tried loading the saved league but the second I go to open the saved league it saved the current league and overwrote the last saved game. AHHH!!!! Help...please...