Okay, from reading all of the posts it seems you've got a bug that's been around since the archery kill cams were added. I've been experiencing problems with the final perk that adds a small chance of paralyzing your enemies too. You shoot and the effect is added on as soon as you release your arrow and that causes the target to fall over and your shots to miss. That's not a new bug and I had hoped 1.6 would fix it, seems it did not.
Though that's not corrupting your saves, they're fine. It's the patch that's broken. When you say a save is corrupted, people think the save won't load, that the save itself is damaged.