The problem wasnt fallout because I already reinstalled it, but it turns out I have a corrupt cluster or two on my hard drive. I ran windows 2k skandisk and came up with nothing, but the one from Dos says that my disk was fucked. Tried formatting but still the same crap.
But I got around it by keeping that fallout there(so that nothing else can be copied to the bad places) and putting it again somewhere else(15gigs free on a low end laptop must be good for something)
but is there a utility or something to cover up the bad places?