@Luc Deveroux, Georgiegril, and everyone that has chipped in on this issue: Thank you very much for the help you're providing. :) I don't mean in anyway to show ungratefulness or anything; I just really am not convinced the problem is non-related to Skyrim. My system is new, hardware is quite capable, I am no expert in modding or anything, but I do have some experience with computers - just like I'm assuming most of us here are - and I keep my system clean of unnecessary processes, virus, spyware, etc. Drivers up to date, Skyrim updated, used Steam to verify Integrity of game cache, etc., none of it works. However, there is something that just occurred to me as I'm typing this post, but more on that later. Here's what Papyrus log is saying: The log goes on and on repeating that last line "Could not find type AdvanceSpeech (...)" and that's the last it recorded before I was forced to kill TESV.exe using Windows task manager. I have already googled, but no results on this. :( ("Where is your god now?") No idea what that could refer to. Any easy way to copy/paste my active mods/scripts list? @FightCat Were you able to continue playing from your previous saves (by keeping the mods, etc)? Or did you just start from the beginning?