To be honest I can't even remember if this was in vanilla. >.< But when I cast buffs, the icon in the top right corner would have a countdown to show the exact time remaining for the buff or summoned creature. I started a new character and suddenly that timer is gone!

Relating to spells... pretty much all I'm using is LAME. I recently installed OblivionXP for this new character, but even with that deactivated, there's no more timer. Did I turn it off somehow or what?

I didn't know that you even COULD turn it off...... using any flavor of UI mod?

Well I've been using BTMod FOREVER. So I *know* that's not the problem. Honestly it seems to probably be OblivionXP (http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35333 this one) OR the required file, MenuQue (http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=32200). I tried deactivated OblivionXP and removing MenuQue, but it still won't show the countdowns. :< So I just am not sure what to do.