SoJ Counter & Game Freeze

Hey all,
I've had this happen three times now:
I'm playing a normal, passworded private MF game and the SoJ sales counter appears. After that, it takes about 30 seconds and the game freezes and I get c/i. Before the counter's appearance, the game works normally with no connection problems.
After the c/i, my character can't join or make games for about 5 minutes. My other characters can create/join, though.
Why does this freeze occur?
|||the same exact thing just happened to me, kind of frustrating|||Your character is probably still recognized by battle.net as being in a game, which is why you can't rejoin. I'm not sure about the SoJ counter, but it may be a side effect of battle.net's hotfix to reduce the mass rollback problems that happened after the reset. Perhaps the mass activity of 40,000 duped Stones of Jordan being sold by some idiot item site is enough to cause connections to be interrupted.|||Thanks for the replies!
It happened again, this time I hit the Clone in my MF game... Diablo walks the earth! But...
I get c/i, and Join Failed with other characters. I was like "Whoo, Anni for me!"
If there's some sort of exploit going around (among the zillions of others), I'd appreciate if there's anything Blizz could do about it. This is annoying and frustrating.
I don't think that the SoJ counter is there to make the game crash.