Rowan, Bethesda is saying that the patch will allow reentry so there is hope yet. I just hope the patch doesn't require another patch later on like the first two patches did. My saves are upto 15mb and the game lags terribly at some times.

Yes Illia is "buggy"! The first time I used her, She used to walk around in her bikini et got dressed to fight... sometimes! ( a nice Mage outfit with necklace and ring and a staff she used to blast me half the time!!! I took back my stuff and sent her home after a while: I felt too cold, in a snowstorm, seeing her in her bikini!!!

This time around I gave her an enchanted leather outfit with enchanted jewellery and a fire staff. She looked very nice!Now She is back with her old blue dress and she has lost the stuff I gave her: it is not in her inventory!!!She has lost the Daedric dagger I gave her and is using an ebony dagger with an enchantment for undead that I have never seen!!! Enough is enough, I sent her home!!!

manxman - can't you go into a file somewhere and delete the older saves. I'm playing on the PS and deleting is so easy - too easy sometimes, oops!

For some reason I become impatient with this game.

L4L - met a lovely doggy in the wild but she/he wouldn't go home with me and Meeko ran off boohoo.

I've quit playing for a bit because I had to kill a mammoth. I really enjoy killing the giants but this time his mammoth charged me and I ran but dumb Shadowmere picked a fight so I killed Mamm because I didn't want Shdwm to get killed.

Also L4L did your son retrieve his deleted saves.

Hi guys, this topic is becoming unwieldy so I'm going to lock it and pin it and start a new one.

AnneG-Thanks. And btw, I think that the old trial and error is a good thing--what better way to learn than to do? I think I will get the Creation Kit when it comes out, fiddle around and maybe when I need help hollar out to you!

(and possibly do the same w/ the Construction Set!)

Tracy, SO eager to make her own houses in Skyrim AND in the Shivering Isles in Oblivion!