Good to hear that you found the answer already! It sounded like a Lifeline issue indeed. Lifeline is a useful safety feature, but there can be confusion if you have the setting for "Detach Lifeline from stationary spaceships when moving past the range" disabled. So if you want to try having Lifeline enabled again, I recommend checking out that you have that setting enabled so that you can actually get away from stationary ships.
If you still have problems with stationary ships even with that enabled, I would recommend sending an F1 report about it with as much information as you have. (e.g. what were you trying to do, what happened, etc.)[/QUOTE]
Ah okay, I'll give that a try! (also after turning it off, I jumped out my ship accidently and lost it forever