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SOLVED!!!!1!
It's disgusting that it took this long to kill this gremlin, but at long last, I did so with extreme pleasure. Dawnguard lives!
The culprit turned out to be two lousy lines in skyrim.ini that were inserted when I installed a mod, months and months ago, that allowed...
I already tried 1.8 and it didn't help anything. And I'm not about to go all the way through the quest line from the beginning with a new character again, only to have it die on me. So, I've about given up at this point.
More for the record, my very first playthrough of Dawnguard indeed got as far as Durnehviir teaching me how to call him, and me trying to search for the rest of my captured soul, when I crashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrashed and couldn't go any further. So that's my high water mark at this point.
I didn't even need to uninstall the expansion, because it's not causing me any problems if I don't actually do the Dawnguard quest line. I backed out of that and reverted to a savegame that I carefully made before entering Fort Dawnguard, because I knew this was going to happen, and it's totally...
Yeah, it's almost November, and this is still happening for me. I spent a month and a half building an entirely new character for the express purpose of playing Dawnguard, and almost never had any crashes, even playing through the Dawnguard quests... until I entered the Soul Cairn.
Again...
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