I seriously doubt that I'm the problem when everything worked fine before and nothing else has changed. I've generally avoided patching because it's caused more problems than it's solved in the past, so judge away for that if you want. Just tell me if that alone would account for the problem when nothing has changed except AwesomeMod and my game probably hasn't been fully patched since 2010.

I'm having the third party mod/core mismatch problem mentioned earlier in this thread, and clearing caches repeatedly has failed me. I've taken out all my custom content but AwesomeMod and it still happens; I get rid of AwesomeMod and it doesn't. It started when I redownloaded the latest update - before that, everything was fine. I've changed absolutely nothing else in the meantime and downloaded nothing else, so I'm baffled.