Yeah, mistakes happen, such as achievements not counting or something, that I would call a mistake, albeit a mistake I could live with since I never cared one bit about achievements.
Something like this mistake I have only seen once so far, and that was with a DLC for Mass Effect 2, which was 1.5 Gigabytes in size and after it was downloaded it was a file that had just zeroes in it, you couldn't execute it.
That meant the DLC was broken until they uploaded a fixed copy, but at least the main game still worked as intended... with SR4 you can't really touch it at the moment because you can't save, and what is the point of playing it when saving potentially effs up that very savegame ?
Make no mistake, I love Saints Row, but this problem had better be fixed by at least the end of the week (which for me is Friday), i'm growing impatient.
EDIT: I don't think that this situation is conducive to the development of mods either, i'm guessing that a lot of mods are on hold until this situation is resolved... wonderful.