[andrewas]

You cant get the Dimension Door spell. It was removed from the game since its unbalancing and lets the player break scripts. (If you teleport past a trigger for example). But you could search for and use ShadowKeeper to give it to your mage.

The official patch you just download and run. Simple enough. The baldurdash fixpack you download and extract. To extract you will need something like winzip. Just make sure all the files end up in the override folder and youll be fine.

The mods can be a pain. They come in to general types. The older one, the non-weiDU mod, is a pain to work. You can have only one of these, and it has to go on before any other mod but after the official patch and baldurdash. Usualy you just extract them to the baldurs gate 2 folder and pray. But they all have readmes included, so read that first.

The newer type, the weiDU mod, is much easier. Extract it to your Bg2 folder, then find its setup program. AS long as you install weiDU mods lastm you cant go wrong. (Except you can, in which case youll see characters using the wrong dialogue strings, in that case uninstall and try again).