Hey guys,

I'm currently in the middle of Ahdarji's Heirloom quest and I am at the part where I'm trying to steal the ring from the countess's jewlery box. I'm running into the issue where the ring is not in the box like it is supposed to be after the countess goes to bed.

I've already tried a number of solutions from this page:
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion_talk:Ahdarji

I understand that the issue is that the countess needs to go to bed before the count and needs to be sleeping on the right side of the bed for the ring to end up in the box. No matter what I do, I cannot get the countess to go to sleep before the count. He always leaves the dining room unfailingly between 10pm-10:30. She sits there all night. I've tried obstructing his path ... attacking him (as he is marked as essential and thus can only be knocked unconscious) ... but I still can't keep him from going to sleep before the countess.

I also completed Sanguine's quest before this one and the marker that leads me to Hildara is in the dining room, yet she is not there hereself. I'm guessing she was killed during that quest?

Nevertheless. I'm stuck. I thought the unofficial Oblivion patch was supposed to fix this glitch, and from the moment I first started the game a couple of weeks ago I performed the "update" from Xbox Live that triggers when you connect to it. So I should have that patch installed already, right?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

I'd really hate to have to abbandon the whole TG questline because of this one glitch.