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Given that "While the time stop is in effect, other creatures are invulnerable to your attacks and spells; you cannot target such creatures with any attack or spell.", then the caster should also be immune to attacks (more specifically, no attacks can happen vs the caster) during the time of the extra rounds.
I would say that "free to act" means no possible repercussions from their actions happen during the free rounds. At the same time, they don't "queue up" and occur when time reverts to normal for the caster as well.