Massive Game Glitch... I made it through it...

[jens]

It's physics and they are unpredictable, it's unfortunately not possible to make sure things like this never happens. You can't easily re-create the situation, as it is very random, so no effective way to test fixes, if even possible to fix at all.

You have a list of saved games you can pick from, so you could load the last save from before this behavior occurred.