Since now I have two months before another vacation, I am working on a new install, this time Pyffing everything and cleaning mods (even some merging). I am hoping to avoid the sleeping guard issue so am looking to see if anyone had this issue. When I clicked on the guard I could access his inventory and it was not stealing (showed the dialoge icon).
My game was pretty basic and consisted of the following:
GOTY
Knights
DLC Battlehorn
DLC Orrery
DLC Horse Armor
DLC Spelltomes
DLC Mehrunes Razor
FCOM Frans, OOO, MMM, Warcry, Bobs, Cobl
UL mods except lost cost
Kvatch Rebuilt
Alex
The Alyeid Steps
Mighty Magica
Thievery in IC
Thieves Arsenal
Vaults of Cyrodiil
Band Of Cyrodiil
CM Partners base mod
Cyrodiil Travel Service
Blood & Mud
I Had the UOP patches (UOP 3.20 plus USIP and UOMP) - Can't use UOP hot fixes, they crash my computer in the same spot
Bashed patch had all available options checked where appropriate (except FCOM related rules)
BOSSed order