Thanks for the nice replies everyone, and a pleasure to meet you all as well. [img]smile.gif[/img]
I was a bit boggled by it as well andrewas, but I'm certain it wasn't from taking rep hits from killing. My avatar is a Cavalier, and I try to roleplay him as such as best as possible, so I'm certain it wouldn't have been that. However, those don't bother me at all, it just got my mind to churning that maybe -other- things were tied in to wherever/however that was stored, and I may have lost those things (namely romance files and what not) as well.
I suppose I'm seeing the cup as half empty.
The only reason I haven't been able to dive in and start figuring it out, is I had some issues with the "XXX cannot initiate dialog right now, they appear to be busy." bug with WinXP. I downloaded the most recent patch from Baldurdash, but still no dice as of yet. I did a complete uninstall and reinstall last night of both SoA as well as ToB, and will be downloading the patch again tonight when I get home from work. (this time I'll try from biowares site - maybe I should have gotten that one to begin with? perhaps it's a different patch than that offered at Baldurdash?) By no means am I computer savvy, but I don't think I did anything goofy to have caused it to mess up when I downloaded/installed it - all the same, nothing I could do but take another stab at it. Either that or throw my monitor out the second story window the next time 'XXX' decided that just standing around staring blankly ahead qualified as 'being busy'.
I'll check out that Shadowkeeper and romance script downloads if I do get it back up and running and -do- find a problem however. Thanks kindly for the references!