Fort Bulwark - some handles not working.

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I am having a problem with Fort Bulwark - the place where you recover the shield in Knights of the Nine. This is not the usual problem of what do I do next; I already know what to do as I have finished this quest with a previous character. My problem is this: when I turn the handles to lower the second and third bridges where all the darts are coming down from the ceiling - nothing happens. The handles turn but the bridges don't come down. My level 24 Battlemage is quite acrobatic so jumped from ledge to ledge to get around the problem. I got to the room with the guardian statues and turned the handles there. Unfortunately the same sort of problem occurred here - the handles would turn but the statues do not rotate.

 

I admit that I did not have Knights of the Nine right at the bottom of my mod load order but it was a fair way down. Also I did move Knights down to the bottom before I attempted Bulwark Fort a second time. I still ended up with same problems.

 

Is there any way I can avoid having to restart Knights of the Nine from scratch as it gets a little tedious on multiple replays? I know now that the mod must go last while playing it but I am concerned that my problem may happen again if I start over.