I've noticed that the Bards College miscellaneous quests seem to have an issue with items refusing to leave your inventory. I returned the Finn's Lute which I found before making my way to the college. Was able to turn it in to her; but, the item remains in my inventory. Pantea's Flute on the other hand; which, I also found before making my way to the college, this item could not be turned in to the person who gave me the quest after talking to her, nor would it update saying I should go find the item or turn it in so that's another item stuck in my inventory.

Then there is one of the random bounty quests from Jarl Skald, after killing a giant and turning it in, the quest remains active in the journal stating that I need to turn it into Skald to collect the bounty.

Note: It is mind boggling, the number of modders out there who have optimized this game within a few days with subtle tweaks, you've been working on this game for how many years? Don't get me wrong, I love the game so far, it's the best of the ES series to date; but, some of the bugs are pretty in your face at this point, hopefully some swift patches will rectify these problems.

For future reference, make it so you can remove misc. quests from your journal, in order to restart them. This could sort out a huge number of quest related problems that the user could just fix on their own if they have trouble with the order they did the quests, like I did.

The quest in Riften for Brand-Shei. If you do it after you have him put in jail, you cannot complete it. You cannot interact with Brand-Shei even if you have the info he needed and the quest remains active in your log. Not sure if it's working as intended; but, it should at least clear it from your log if you cannot finish it.

My bugged quest list also includes Return to Skald as well Find Finn's Flute (even though I've already gotten the reward for turning them both in...Finn's Flute is also in my inventory as well). After doing some research here is a bit of info that I've found and will be testing soon. If anyone has any insight on any of this before I proceed please post as anything that can help is highly appreciated.

1. Player.removeitem 000DABAB 1 (will remove Finn's Flute)

Source: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Finn%27s_Lute

I've read that there are no negative affects from using such a command and that I'd just need to find the ID for the other bugged quest items in my inventory and repeat to clean house...True?

2. SetObjectiveCompleted 1
SetStage -- here the stage number is the next stage in the quest (the one after the bugged stage)

You can find all the stages of a quest using: sqo

Source: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1297739-bugged-quests-and-console-commands/page__hl__remove+bugged+quests__fromsearch__1

Anything negative about using these two commands to remove a quest if the quest has already been completed and turned in?

Also, what would the Stage ID that it would need to be set to for Finn's Flute if the final Stage ID is 200? The instructions say the next stage so 201 sounds right except that 201 wouldn't exist. Would you just use the final Stage ID (200) in that case? OR, would you just skip the second command all together as the first command would probably do the trick on its own?

Hope this doesn't sound too ignorant and that's for any assistance.