Excellent, thanks! That solved it perfectly!
I've got the same problem. I even released her to the 188 but she still won't follow me, even though she shows as a companion and I get the perk associated with her.
However, she has appeared 3 times so far! Once at the bottom of some stairs, and then outside when I went through the door, but she still wouldn't follow. Then she suddenly appeared near the end of combat, when she helped take out the main bad guy. Then again in the next combat against a group of bad guys.
This all happened in the same session, but I still can't get her to follow me!
I'll try the solution suggested above, and if that doesn't work I'll have to abandon her.