Missing Dialogue, Missing "Finished Quests"

[Allannaa]

I've searched but don't see anyone else with this problem.

 

Lately, I've had a couple of problems with Skyrim.

 

1) Missing "quest offer" dialogue, specifically in Falkreath. Siddgeir doesn't offer his "Gimme some Black Briar Mead" option, nor does he offer his "Go kill these bandits cause they made me mad" dialogue. His father, Dennigeir, doesn't offer the "Go swipe Lod's Letter" dialogue, and he doesn't offer his "Go kill my vampire ancestor" dialogue. The steward offers only one bandit-leader-kill quest and nothing else.

 

2) NO quest in the "Miscellaneous" category shows up "under the line" once completed. Side quests and main quest objectives, such as "Golden Claw" and Dawnguard-entry quests, do show up. Civil war miscellaneous quests such as "Join the Stormcloaks" and "Join the Legeon" don't show up when completed.

 

I've used Falkreath as an example, but it seems to be Skyrim-wide.

 

I'd made a mod called The Little Cottage, where the player did a quick quest to earn a small house in the wilderness. When I was given Hearthfires for a holiday present, I naturally uninstalled that, because I didn't need it. I wondered if uninstalling that mod had been what caused the issue; it was a start-game-enabled quest, and there had been some bugs with those. So I moved the ESP and BSAs, and uninstalled it, and deleted the SEQ for that plugin from the folder in Skyrim > Data > SEQ. It didn't work.

 

I thought the issue might be related to some other mod somewhere (I don't use many, and all but two are mods I wrote anyway, which worked up until Saturday) so I uninstalled EVERYTHING -- and I don't just mean I unchecked it in the NMM, I moved the plugins out of the Data folder.

 

It didn't work, so I deleted the Data folder and told Steam to reinstall Skyrim.

 

I also had Steam validate the CK, thinking I might somehow, some way, have screwed something up in that.

 

It hasn't helped. I'm still not getting dialogues, and I'm still not seeing finished Miscellaneous quests in the "Finished" area of the Journal screen.

 

I *am* having the Courier show up and present me with a letter from whatever town's Jarl, but when I follow the "quest arrow" and activate the Jarl, I do not get the dialogue to purchase, or even to talk to the steward about purchase of the land-plot.

 

Before I deleted and reinstalled, I owned Breezehome (doesn't everyone? lol) and went to Proventius. He did give me the option to turn the alchemy closet into a child's room, and the courier appeared with the letter from Constance in Riften (I'd killed Grelod, obviously). I went to her and spoke with her, and chose a child -- and again, nothing showed up in the Finished section, even though the "COMPLETED" message showed on screen.

 

Right now I have this installed:

 

Creation Kit

Skyrim Script Extender

SkyUI

Skyrim

Update

High Res Tex Pack 1 and 2

Dawnguard

Hearthfires

 

You'll notice other than the official downloads, and the SkyUI, I'm not running *any* mods at all, not even body texture replacers (which of course don't touch Quest information anyway.)

 

Everything actually *runs* fine, and the game is playable, whether starting "new" or using the load screen to console-start in a cell such as Riverwood. It's just that I'm not getting quest dialogues and I'm not getting the list of finished Miscellaneous quests.

 

Anyone have any ideas? This is making me quite crazy.

 

 

*Edit, with both HF and DG "unchecked" after the clean reinstall so that they don't run, I DO get the quest dialogues. However, I still DO NOT get anything in the "Finished" section of the journal window.

Edited January 1, 2013 by Allannaa