Well, I seem to have fixed it and I don't really understand how. First I peeled away all my non-essential mods (basically, anything that didn't add a perk to my character) and then slowly began adding them back in, except a few, which I removed for tidying purposes. The one I removed, Scout outfit, Carfort with quests, and Roy Philips is evil w/ mask had all been in my load order forever, so I refuse to believe one of them was really causing this bizarre problem that only just happened.... Whatever, it's working now and I'm glad. Thanks for the input, mechine, I'll be sure to try that out when this problem crops up again. Because it probably will.