MK Armageddon

[Raggy76ZN]

Have a problem and was hoping someone here could help.

Here's the deal:
I've put MK Armageddon (special edition) on the PS2 HDD using HDAdvance. The game and features work great. My problem is that it won't load UMK3 I've tried all combination of Modes in HDA, but nothing works. The entire game just locks up whenever I try to play UMK3.

Is there a patch or a work-around out there that would fix this

Thanks in advance

--edit--
don't know if its important, but I have a version 9 PS2(ntsc) and am using a 80gb Maxtor drive