How on earth can you be level 50 and not have any saves prior to her giving you the quest? You actually used nothing but autosave and quick saves the entire time? If so count yourself blessed not to have gotten a corrupted save, statistically you should have lost your game by now to a CTD corruption.
No, I use Actual Saves, I'm on like my 500th save, what I'm saying, I'm lvl 50 by doing everything else in the world, NOW i chose to do the storyline, it goes smoothly until Diplomatic Immunity, where she failed to give me the quest, I just thought it was somewhere else in the game that the quest would be given to me, so i kept running around and used all my autosaves and normal saves up and i can only go as far back to AFTER shes supposed to give me A CORNERED RAT but she did not, ive talked to EVERYBODY and her no quest added.
Guessing because ive already been to sky haven temple before the quest or completed thieves guild, but idk, i just wanna play the story!