Interesting way to do 1st ACM mission

[CapnKoolerz]

Ok, I wanted to know if this was because I did the first mission in an unexpected way, or if I'm not requesting my next mission correctly:

For the first ACM mission, I went straight to LV-103 (after taking a little time to mine to buy more Radine and Plutonium), and started escorting the Falkyrie delegates. (I'm still new at escort control and I lost the support fleet in the first system that had an enemy starbase). Then I decided, to make things faster, I was going to take FLX-10 from Otura-6 to Mondial, and shorten the trip from 33 jumps to 10. Now, the delegates won't follow you through the fluxfield, but I hopped into a shuttle and towed them through anyway. When I got to LV-130, They docked with the station as normal, and I got medals, but I couldn't go on to the next mission. I tried the HUD command, the key command (CTRL+ALT+C), and I tried waiting for the timer to run out, and even going back to Pravis and trying it there. No luck.

I haven't tried doing the mission without using the fluxfield. Is it failing because I took an unexpected shortcut, or is it because I'm doing something wrong?

(I wasn't sure whether to put this in Tech Support... I'm not really in a bind, I was just curious as to whether doing it this way stops the mission from completing correctly).