Someone reported playing the game on 3.73 and there is NO update whatsoever (1.01 or 1.02 doesn't exist) and the game works fine, no freeze on journal.
I guess its related to the missing libraries from 3.7+.
Ha, could you imagine the storm created if the retail version had the journal bug? If there is a 3.55 eboot fix, doesn't that mean there is no dependency on later libraries, or do you think they force it not to use them, and that's what caused the bug?