Transmission suddenly broke...

[wilsonn1996]

Hey guys, I have been running Gargoyle for a few months now, and everything has been working fine. Yesterday I loaded up a torrent and hit some problems. After about 100mb, the web ui of transmission 2.32 would start to freeze up, and eventually I would not be able to connect to it. I spent the whole day yesterday trying to diagnose the problem but to no avail. I reflashed many times, and tried newer versions of transmission on the trunk repository of openwrt, but they had different problems.
My transmission saves to a 16gb usb stick in the back of the router. I reformatted the usb stick to ensure that it was not corruption causing the problem, and it still does not work It is formatted as EXT4 with journaling off.
I tried a different, 2GB usb stick and I managed to download the whole ubuntu ISO onto it. Recently the power in the house was cut due to a faulty adapter being plugged in. Could this cut in power have caused the problems?
Any help would be appreciated, I spent many hours on this problem and could not figure it out!:(