some bugs - mostly NPC dialogue, also quest logs

ok so I played for the first time yesterday for several hours.  Here are some things I noticed, I'm wondering if there are workarounds, otherwise I am just reporting.

1) When an NPC responds to a question, the dialog script goes by so quickly there's no time to read it.

2) For some NPCs you have to kill in the Morag Tong questiline they won't initiate dialog so you can't taunt them.   I know this is normal, but in vanilla Morrowind you could take your clothes off or be diseased to shock them into talking to you, or you could cast a frenzy spell on them.  If I try the first two it doesn't enter into dialog.  If I cast frenzy a guard shows up so fast I don't have time to execute the kill.  Most of the time I have a writ, but for example in the first quest you don't have one so you either have to resist arrest or be hauled off to jail before you can kill them.  Also a problem in threads of the webspinner.  Also if they will talk to me and / or attack first, everyone in the room still turns hostile and I either have to kill everyone or flee.  The only way I've found to get around this is to kill them with the console which is no fun!

3) quest logs:  some quest logs don't update, it seems like usually I can go on to the next phase of the quest if I know what it is and then it will update... but in the case of Mephala's quest when I put the poison in the pot it says hopefully he will consume it soon and this never changes... unless I have to wait a long time like several days or weeks which I don't remember.  I can look later at which quests this is happening to if it helps, it's not every one.