This bug has happened to me twice, where if I crash or get disconencted and we use another save, or use an autosave from what I can tell, or this time when it last happened saved over an old unpatched sins game.  Anyway the bug is when this bug happens, my friend and I are suddenly playing two single player games and not a multiplayer game.  We load up, we use the save just fine, but we are both playing two seperate games which we can talk to each other.  And we see two different games.  Who has what planets, who has what ships, what the AI is even doing all different and seperate from our two suddenly single player games.  How does this happen?

Also my friend was able to put pirate bids on me, while we were playing the two seperate games, how does this happen?