While testing my companion mod I've been working on the intro and now for some reason my PlayerFollowerCount is stuck at 1 so I can never get her to follow me. How do i reset this? I've already blown away my ini files, didn't work. Tried unchecking the mod, loading, saving, rechecking it, loading it again. Didn't work.

Other than restart with a new *&^% character how do I reset this?

This is REALLY annoying!

It is probably going to take a console command.
Possibly with setting a quest stage (setstage followerdialogue ### or something like that) to initial or complete depending on how you have structured your mod.
Look at some of the follower mod troubleshooting steps on their nexus pages (EFF, UFO) and see how they do it.
Good luck!

Ah yes. that should do it. There IS a stage for the follower leaving. Thanks for the head slap!

console:
set playerfollowercount to 0