I got the game at release but couldn't only start to play now. I wanted to play a DB+bow assassin, but I am finding this very hard to do. I did a search on these forums, and it appears that people are having trouble mixing Dual Wielding with spells, or have a specific weapon go into a specific hand. I am having a different problem: hotkeys "un-hotkey" themselves after use.

First I played with the hotkeys assigning spells, 1-H swords, 2-H swords, a shield, spells, etc., to the hotkeys and it seemed to work. Then I un-hotkeyed everything and only left:
1. Iron sword
2. Longbow

I hit 1, I get an iron sword in BOTH hands.
I hit 2, I get the bow, so far so good.
I hit 1, back to DWing 1-H swords.
I hit 2 - no bow, nothing. I check the favorites menu and sure enough, I lost the "2" next to the longbow. Repeatable at will. Same thing if the bow is on key 3, 4, 8, etc.

I can only switch between a melee weapon and a bow at will without losing the bow hotkey if I do it between a 2-H greatsword and the bow, then I don't lose the bow hotkey.

Also, if I have a 1-H sword in my favorites list, not even hotkeyed, playing between the greatsword and the bow will still manage to have the 1-H sword equipped somehow, and make me lose the bow hotkey.

I suppose I got my favourites menu and/or hotkeys list corrupted somehow, and unfavoriting everything does not help. Anyone else seen this?

They work fine for me, the only thing lame is you can't bind a left handed sword, so to dual wield you always have to go to the menu and left click after you've selected your right handed weapon. Why it can't equip a left hand only weapon is beyond me.

I feel like when I have 2+ weapons/sheilds ... the fav menu sometimes act weird.

This is why i hardly ever play with dual swords

Also whats wrong with "0" and "9" ? Why can't we assign weapons to those keys? !-8 is great but 2 more would be even better

Something like that happens to me if I have more than one of that particular weapon. Are you carrying more than one longbow by any chance?

Oblivion was the same way. Probably something to do with saving memory. Can't wait for a hotkey mod!

0 and 9 aren't available on the pc because only 8 combinations of buttons are accesible on the xbox controller (and i can feel my IQ lowering just by typing that).