so apparently (post-patch) I went to reload an autosave and the DLC prompt pops up and I start freaking out for a few seconds, though I noticed it still gave me an option to load - I DIDN'T, i just deleted that save and loaded the hard save i made before that one and that loaded fine - my not work for everyone but it beats complete file corruption.

Yes but how far back was the hard save? Was it for example before completeing the quest? If so that is why it didnt get corrupted.

I′m going at this game again... lot′s of saves this time! No Autosave!

Save before I begin a quest and have 3-5 savefiles within a started quest.... after quest I will try loading latest save.. if it′s dlc problems my save before the quest should be ok... I hope