Stuck at Player 3's turn

Hiya all,
Figure a few people may have had this bug and I just may know what is causing it, i just dont know how to fix it.

Problem: Stuck at Player #'s turn permantly. I know its not combat related (the time thing) as i have left my computer on overnight to let it finish any looong combats and i have adjusted this in the settings
Space Combat Ends Only When Time Up Or No Enemies := FALSE
to insure combat doesnt last forever.

Well... i used the ALLPLAYERSHUMAN cheat to see what could be causing the hangup, and I think I may see what it is! Maybe...

I noticed Player 3 is entering a mine field and a little pop up window comes up for them to click. As a human I could happily press this button and concluded thier turn with no other issues. However, did the programmers stupidly overlook something so small as to insure the AI did not recieve this pop up or make it so they can click it away??

Anyone have any solutions to this problem?? I cant seem to fix it, and this game takes way to much time to play to restart everytime we come across some small game stopping bug.