I just got Freelancer and am having a problem with some of the cutscenes in the game. When the game first loads, the company logos and the cutscene explaining the backstory of the game are ****y with stuttered sound. This is very strange, especially since the rest of the in-game cutscenes and the game itself play smoothly at 1280x1024 and highest detail setting. I don't understand how I could have a problem with the simple 2-D stuff, but the polygon-intensive stuff runs fine. Here's my specs:

Pentium 3 600MHz
256MB RAM
GeForce 4 64MB with latest Detonator drivers
SoundBlaster 64 (already fixed the MP3 Codec issue that others have had)

I couldn't find anything in the readme that sounds like this. The thing is, this isn't the first game I've had this sort of problem with. Morrowind seems to do the same thing during the cutscenes. Is this possibly a video codec issue (similar to the audio problem a lot of us had)? Has anyone else had this problem or know how to fix it? Thanks for responding!