EDIT: Nevermind, overnight I recalled another incident that is probably the cause of the problem. I think I'm going to go back and reinstall - I have a couple of other little glitches, missing mesh and etc. I didn't discover MOM until my Oblivion was already heavily modded, so I don't have a clone to go back to that I'm confident is clean. I'll start fresh one more time with the right utilities and get it done right.

-------

OK, hope somebody can tell me what's going on. Every time I pass by a spot on the Gold Road just north of Anvil, I pick up a small bounty. I am running Bounty and Infamy tracker in Cobl and as I run along it says first: Bounty 45/250, then another ~100yds down the road Bounty 0. Every time I pass this part of road. I do *not* see another update to positive bounty - in the tracker it looks like I only have a bounty while on this stretch of road - but 3 out of 4 times the Anvil watch arrests me and collects the 45 septims. Sometimes, for some reason they don't want me.

I haven't committed any crimes while this was going on.....before it all started I had been reported for one silly "Crime": picking up a flower pot in the Anvil Mages Guild. No officers of the watch responded to that call, so I guess there was a bounty hanging over me at first. But I've paid it 3 times! And why does it keep getting reset at that one patch of road outside the city? I practiced sneaking behind some travelers in that area before this all started, but didn't pickpocket any items from them. I have not done any sneak training while trying to clear this up.

Hope someone can help. If you need more info please tell me how to collect it. gamesas forums will not accept my posts with load order pasted in.....I'm patched up, running a bunch of mods but in the stealth category only Reneers Guards, Stealth Detection Recalibrated and SM Combat Hide.

Thanks for any advice.

Bart