Fix state freezing

Sometimes the state would freeze during regular usage of the program. Though we were unable to track down the exact source of the problem, the simple truth is that the state mutexing does not follow the conventions, as it was written before the conventions.

The only way to be certain about a fix is to completely overhaul how the state manages mutexes, so in the meantime I've just made some dangerous changes that will allow race conditions through sometimes. They will also probably prevent deadlock, though since we can't consistently trigger the error I'm not certain.

This unfortunately goes on the list of things that we hope to fix during architecture week.