You should get ToB [img]smile.gif[/img] . That would get you out of the cold turkey mode.
I recently got ToB and it makes BGII much more interesting.
Evil partys are alwasy fun to toy around with. You could mix up an evil party, and be a Barbarian or something. Archers can be fun too. I dont know how many times you have gone trough the game and what you have tryed and what not. But if theres some classes you havent played with yet, go ahead.

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Sarevok! :D