I've was recently playing GOTY Edition of Fallout 3 Ps3, when I decided to go to The Pitt for levelling up and trophy purposes. When I got to the retrieving 10 steel ingots for Medina part of the questline, the game got the idea of making items disappear, like the Auto Axe and PipBoy (the screen stays). When I when into a building to find some more ingots, the game freaked the $%!& out (sorry for swearing) and decided to crash, making me lose the 37 ingots I had acquired.

Any ideas/solutions most welcome.