Okay this seems a bit confusing in its entireity, however, if you are not familiar with that quest AT ALL I'd recommend to stop reading on since I might need to include spoilers.

-Various traps, especially the *spoiler*-traps which have rather harsh effect can NOT be detected, I even tried the find-trap spell, no workee.. This can't be on purpose can it?

-When all my party but me got trapped in the cages I could still do nothing to help them since there's NO other means to get down except getting trapped as well, where the ladder down -should- be is plainly nothing, I could not even find a hidden grate or the like after about 20 minutes of intense search. :oops: Luckily Gaeseric came to the rescue.. I just love that one. :wink:

-There is no means to cancel the quest when it's been taken. Quite an issue since I still couldn't figure out what the heck one's supposed to do to complete it.

-The journal entry goes bad when one crashes/relogs while doing that quest.

Is this just me being thick again or are there really some nasty bugs behind this?

Linelle

-Various traps, especially the *spoiler*-traps which have rather harsh effect can NOT be detected, I even tried the find-trap spell, no workee.. This can't be on purpose can it?

That isn't on purpose, but I'll take a look.

-When all my party but me got trapped in the cages I could still do nothing to help them since there's NO other means to get down except getting trapped as well, where the ladder down -should- be is plainly nothing, I could not even find a hidden grate or the like after about 20 minutes of intense search. :oops: Luckily Gaeseric came to the rescue.. I just love that one. :wink:

There is definately a way down that doesn't involve stepping in a trap.

-There is no means to cancel the quest when it's been taken. Quite an issue since I still couldn't figure out what the heck one's supposed to do to complete it.

"Surviving the tomb" should be enough to complete it. You should get the completed entry just by climbing the stairs and getting out. With that in mind, no reason to have a way to quit. As soon as you exit, you get the completed entry.

-The journal entry goes bad when one crashes/relogs while doing that quest.

I'll check that. I think it might be something wrong with the completed entry rather than a crash/log issue.

Is this just me being thick again or are there really some nasty bugs behind this?

I don't know about nasty bugs, but it sounds like there is a bug.

Yeah when one survives the tomb and gets out the journal indeed does update, but, I just hear the "update" Scribble-scribble sound effect but the quest is neither completed, nor does the journal entry change at all, it just is flashing again. I think this can be repeated as often as one wants, though.

And if there's a way to get down other than how we did it, I wouldn't know, I searched every single inch of that place three times in detect mode.

Sounds like a possible journal problem with the entry it's giving.

On the secret door, I'll blame that on paladin's having crappy search. It's very possible that your search wasn't high enough to find it no matter how long you spent.

My search score is 10, FYI, not -that- great I give you that, but, it's possibly over-average of what most people should have when doing that quest ?

I've searched with my svirfneblin using rogues pride (giving him like 24 search) to no avail. But that was a good while ago.