Constant game freezing issues

Right so I've done a forum search and it looks like a lot of people have reported similar freezing issues. Most have been on the 'silver GT' loading screen. My freezes occur before the screen and in seemingly random places:

*Trying to access IC-4 license test: be it from Next via IC-3 or just outright selecting it in the menu.
*Festival Italia second race, similarly from above.
*Tuning shop when selecting parts. This seemed to resolve itself after a couple of data reinstalls.

There could be more but I've been very cautious about where to go in this game and where it may freeze. In all instances, the disc is not read and the HDD light is not on.

I have literally deleted and then reinstalled the Install data at least 7 times. I've used File System Restore twice, a Quick Format, a Full Format (good lord that took 7 hours), installed the 1.05 patch after installing the data (rather than vice versa), disabled the internet while playing, not using custom music and so on. I'm using a one-year-old PS3 slim 120 GB model and my GT5 disc was acquired three days ago with the disc in pristine condition. The freezing persists and seems to find new areas to lock up on.

Dude, what's going on here? Is there absolutely any way to fix this? Is there a potential patch in the works to fix this? This is ridiculous man, I really want to play the hell out of this game!
 
Just notice your thread after making mine. The game froze up on me when I was repeating the same license test many times. This time the game deleted all my replay data.
 
Try and get your game disc replaced or rent/borrow another copy of the game. If the game still causes a lock up, your the PS3 might be the issue. I'm on a one year old 250GB Slim and it hasn't frozen with any game yet, but once in a while defective consoles make their way out of the factory. It sometimes takes a memory intensive game to trigger a crash..
 
Playing FFXIII causes no such issues, when I had tried to compare other games. I'll look into replacing the disc, but none of these freezes involve disc loading in any way: all of these instances the HDD needed to recall the install data.
 
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