My question is, how important is this first companions quest, hiw important are the companions?
Because i've tried to get around the glitch by leaving the local area a few times and now the autosaves are now all corupt with this glitch and my last manual save is before killing my first dragon (only just started the game), and starting and completing a few side quests... so im wondering if the companions are important is it worth loading the manual save and re-doing the dragon, etc. Or just leave that side quest bugged and carry on...