Maybe instead of a new thread I should just add this here. I don't know yet about your questions.
Unfortunately, the PS3 Patch didn't fix the problem I have on Oh My Papa. I had spoken with Papa Khan early on during the Return To Sender quest for the NCR because I was in the canyon. So I stopped in to say hello, as a visitor to his encampment would do, and spoke with him. Evidently I selected the speech option about an alliance with another faction without realizing it would be needed later in the game when I actually had his quest. We're told to speak with everyone because it may lead somewhere in these games but now I'm hesitant to do that because it may screw something up. If that speech option had returned when you actually had the Oh My Papa quest, it would've been fixed. I know now to NOT speak with Papa until the quest but I'm wondering if there are any other Great Khan quests that I should specifically do in a certain order so there can be an alliance with the NCR for my outcome, which is what I was heading for. I'm not an assassin so I won't go that route for the NCR.
Anything else I should watch out for now? Thanks. I really do love the game and some day, I'll actually see the end scenes.
The other thing I'm wondering is if Boone is still a beast after the patch. I'll check that myself later.