I'm currently in email contact with someone from Bethesda support and she told me my comments have been passed on. Hopefully that means to the patch team.
I just wish I had an older save to go back to. I do have a few backups but my oldest backup still has the problem. I've been using Chillrend as my weapon of choice for a long time now.
That's great, keep me updated!
In the meantime I'll just have to keep doing the sixchange thing every time I load... My only pre-bug save game is from 10 or so levels ago, so that's not an option, I might as well start a brand new game, which I'd rather not do.
(And yet also am tempted to, just to try something completely different..)