For me the kid was at the southern entrance of the Slums district. It may change though. If you don't find him and still want to go to the Umar hills you may want to try to go to the Government district. When you get there and walk by the Council of Six building you'll be asked by someone to come inside and speak to someone who has a job for you. The cowled wizard inside will ask you to hunt down Valygar for murder. If you then go to Valygar's house (in the Docks district) you'll find that he has a cabin in the Umar Hills. This may then put the Umar Hills on your worldmap. Not sure though as I already had it on my world map when I took on the hunt for Valygar. Seeing how you need Valygar to get into the Planar Sphere I wouldn't think that the Bioware developers would make getting to his location contingent upon having Minsc in your party (which the Umar Hills quest appears to be). The strange thing for me is that I have the Murder in the Umar Hills quest listed in me "Done Quests" section however when I speak to the boy he basically asks me again to go to the Umar hills and I get the quest added in my "Quests" section. Haven't seen if I can go back and talk to the people that I've already helped for extra exp points. Might be worth a try.
As for the woman who asks to see you, basically you have two choices. One is to hook up with the shadow thieves to find Imoen, the other is to talk to this woman and hook up with her "guild". She's more evil than the shadow thieves so for RPing purposes you may want to factor this into your decision.
Drink up.
-Tipsy
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