I Was using this with quite a bit of success until i hit some sort of odd bug with v0.4b. Hoping anyone on here has any solution? I correctly installed everything and played with it for a good 20+ hours of gametime, then made it all the way to Illia's quest/tower and finally finished the quest. Saved for the night and shut everything down. The next day I load up my save, and all of my followers except farkas (whom was following me due to the purity quest, not of a "follow me" dialogue choice, which i still did have however.) are walking off down the road, most likely returning to the idle locations when you dismiss them; to be specific they were Lydia and Alea.
When I attempt to talk to them they have the dialogue choices as if they were still my current follower, but as i try to dismiss them with the "part ways" option, they say they'll head back home, but when i speak to them again their dialogue options havn't changed back to a "follow me" option. I still have the same choices as when they were following me. (Wait here, Trade, Part ways, ect). I've tried deleting the .esp and all scripts, clean saved and talking to them again with and without the mod active, and i still get the same results. Even tried setting them to different factions via the console and no changes whatsoever, they are just stuck with the same dialogue as if they were currently following me, but won't follow me. They even draw weapons when I draw mine still as they're walking off on their own, (but strangely won't sneak when I do).
So i'm completely stumped. Anyone have any ideas? i didn't see anything when I skimmed the previous pages about anything like this. The only thing i did after shutting down that night was installing the "riverwood redux" mod, which should have absolutly nothing to do with this at all, Removing that mod and loading up the save doesn't fix anything, so I don't know what's going on. I even tried loading up a save from nearly 10 hours prior to the problem when I only had faendal and Lydia, and lydia still walks off on her own as if returning to Dragonsreach immiedatly, with the exact same dialogue bug. Anyone have a possible solution? I'm hoping it's as simple as some console command that I can't seem to find to reset their dialogues.
EDIT: Fixed the problem and left up for anyone who ever runs into this problem in the future, but no idea why this worked, or how it even happened in the first place:
Downloaded 0.4a and installed, loaded everything up and it was back to normal... o_O. Dismissed followers and saved, Removed 0.4a, started up Skyrim up again, cleansaved and reinstalled 0.4b, rehired everyone and everything works again, even can dismiss them and rehire on the spot.
So I have no clue what went wrong or how, but If anyone has this problem later, this might help. I figured maybe one of the scripts somehow got corrupted/stuck in a loop? No idea, either way thanks to the creator for this mod, as without it I doubt i'd play Skyrim even half as much. Group of companions + WIS/Warzones = My kind of Skyrim.