I have an old mod with a problem I've never been able to solve and I would LOVE for someone who actually knows what they're doing (as opposed to me) to look for the bug and help me squash it. If anyone's interested in doing that, first, you have my eternal gratitude. Second, you should know that the bug is intermittent, which I'm sure will make it harder to find. But if someone's interested in tackling this for me, it's a bug in a companion mod that occasionally gives you the follower's perk message twice and then freezes the game. I recently did a fresh install of NV with only this mod loaded and did half a dozen run throughs; in five of them, the hiring process went without a hitch. One of them exhibited the bug. Anyway, that's the nutshell version of what's going on. If anyone would be willing to look at my scripts and see if they can find the problem, that would be great and much appreciated. :)