I just started a game in Morroblivion. I am a level 1 dark elf and have not really completed any quests besides those necessary to meet up with Caius Cosades. I ran into major issues when I tried to proceed from this point during a variety of quests.
I think the major issue I am having is in the conversation topics of specific characters. I'll outline everything that I have tried to do and when it stopped working.
First I joined the fighters guild in Balmora. It gave me the quest prompt that I joined and I accepted the first quest to go handle the rat problem (The rat problem quest was also added to my journal). After I entered the woman's house and killed the rats that attack her, though, she only says the line to me about waiting for the fighters guild to come help her with her rat problem when I chose the prompt "rat problem". Since this was a dead end I figured I would try other side quest lines to see if anything else would work. I also noticed that even though I was technically notified that I was a member of the fighters guild, no one from the fighters guild would trade with me or offer training.
Next I tried going to Moonmoth Legion Fort to try the first quest that is available there from Radd Hard-Heart. I was instructed to go handle the nord causing trouble near Hla Oad. When I approached the Nord he was not aggresive and had no topics to continue the quest (Should have said "murderous outlaws"). I killed him anyway and returned to Fort Moonmoth and accepted my reward, which was the first time a quest was technically able to finalize.
I also tried to finish the "Death of a Taxman" quest in Seyda Neen, but couldn't because Thavere Vedrano did not have any of the necessary prompts to continue the quest. Also, after confronting Foryn Gilnith about the murder he admitted his guilt, then I said I understood, but after that he never gave me the ring to return to Thavere and I wasn't given the next journal entry.
As a final effort before consulting this forum I traveled north to Gnisis to try to join the Imperial Legion at Fort Darius. I talked to Darius, the man who should allow you to join, and after selecting the conversation topic "Join the Imperial Legion" Darius only said the same thing as everyone else in town, that I should look for Darius if I want to sign up. Very frustrating. Also, the Chaplain in the basement of Fort Darius, after asking him about Joining the Imperial Legion, said that I had been expelled from the Legion and asked if I wanted to repent, but he did not have any other conversation topics after that.
Could anyone give me their opinion of what is wrong? Like did I install the game incorrectly, or is there an update I am missing? Everything else seems to be working fine, but I don't want to continue with the main quest line if eventually I'll just run into dead ends like these. I installed Morroblivion following the video tutorials since I was only familiar with Morrowind Mods, and I have Version 031. Thanks for any help you can give.

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