"NO VALID REPLIES OR LINKS" bug?

[spacecake]

hello all, i've just killed the big bad guy in watcher's keep (avoiding the spoiler) and promptly returned to the top of the keep to talk with the Helmites.

when I get there, i get stuck in this weird dialogue which is clearly buggy. it goes like this:

Odren: You return, we sensed the lower vault had been breached, what has occured, did you not cast the ritual?

Me: There's no more need for your ritual. Your imprisoned one is dead.

Odren: You destroyed "big bad dude", how is that possible?

but instead of giving me a chance to reply, it says "NO VALID REPLIES OR LINKS" and clicking on that ends the dialogue. something's not right--did anyone else run into this? I've emailed interplay but haven't heard back yet.

also--note that i haven't actually started ToB yet; still in SoA but wanted to do Watcher's keep before finishing SoA. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

[Sojourner]

I experienced this with Yakman, and was able to resolve it by having another party member talk to him. Do you have the official patch? This may fix the problem too.

[spacecake]

thanks sojourner, didn't work when having other people talk to Odren, nor when I put others at the front of the party for him to automatically talk with. I'm downloading the latest ToB patch; or did you mean SoA patch? will keep the group posted.

[Morlock]

Sujourner must mean ToB. After all, thats where WK is.

[spacecake]

thanks people, the patch didn't work but there was a patch on baldurdash which did the trick! now i'm off to fix my jaheira romance... :-)