glitch cant pick up items

[insanebarbarian]

I have the 2.28 scared gold edition. Ihave been leveling a gladiator , hes level 83. Anyway I had started a new game with the glad and imported him into the new game. i had been playing awhile when the screen went funky for a second. After i had killed a few bandits i went to pick up the drops and found i couldn't pick anything up and that's when i noticed that the graphics ring that comes on when you get near a enemy was on even though there wasnt a enemy near me. i quit reloaded and it was still there. i tried going through portals and that didn't help. I can talk to people and still get dialogue and get quests as well as use the blacksmith and merchant but i cant pick up anything nor get rid of the graphics circle even though there are no enemy near me. i had just saved over the old save game for this game before i noticed the the problem so now my only choice is to go back and start a new game and re level him back up the 8 levels :/ or perhaps someone might know what the glitch is and how to fix it (cross's fingers).

while i'm here i might as well as ask a second question what skill or stat affects your *to hit* score the most. I'm doing plenty of damage but my *to hit* makes it take to long to kill now in gold because i'm only able to hit enemies around 50% of the time.

Thanks in advance
the insane barb