PirateNeilsouth: All it says is game loaded... Perhaps its due to the Unoffical patch?
Might be the patch, even if it sounds strange, I use the 1.3.3, childrens patch and sfall myself and have had no problems. (that is with FO, not FO2, haven't installed the latter yet, or rather, haven't installed gog's version yet)
Brother none (NMA) wrote that the 1.3.4 is the one the recommended for FO and for FO 2 it should be Killaps unofficial.
"Loaded", that would happen if you click the triangle to stay somewhere on the map, sounds very strange... (iv'e never encountered that)
Did you check the char as well, maybe you're radiated and the game doesn't write it out in the text, not that I've ever seen it happen, but... (you might even want to try taking some rad-away and see if it helps, just save before so you can reload in case it does nothing, no point in wasting it for nothing)
Unfortunately I'm running out of ideas, maybe you could try uninstalling the patch, but that may render your saves useless... (unless you try a fresh install, move the savegames somewhere first, and then reinstall the same patch and move the save folder back...in case something strange happened during your initial installment, I doubt it will help, but it might be worth a shot if nothing else helps...)
Let's hope someone else comes in with an answer, like written I've never encountered that problem myself.