It appears i have manipulated the game beyond it's capacity. I have tried previous saves and everything works fine till i try to use shadowkeeper to manipulate inventory. The edited saves all produce a failure.
I found the ToBEx folder which contains the ToBEx ini's and read them. Debug is set to verbose now.
I tried compatibility with windows and using OpenGL instead of directdraw and a few other things i don't have in mind atm.
At this point i can manipulate and diagnose effectively using the logs produced by debugging.
On a positive note - I am forever grateful to the peeps that maintain this website and the help this community has to offer as well as the amount of work that has gone into the mods to make a good game GREAT!
./cheer