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   Guinefort1

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   03 December 2014, 11:41PM

   Yeah, I had this big purple "island" in the middle of the bay when I downloaded SI but didn't activate the esp file. Good times. My best guess would be to uninstall and then reinstall both vanilla Oblivion and the CS to revert it back.
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   DrakeTheDragon

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   02 December 2014, 9:30PM

   The trouble with SI is it does not come with a plugin. Its changes and additions are directly incorporated inside a replacement "Oblivion.ESM", the " DLC Shivering Isles.ESP" is empty and has only one purpose, to trigger auto-load of the likewise named BSA files.
   
   If you remove the BSAs but do not revert the "Oblivion.ESM" back to pre-SI also, the SI contents will still remain inside the game records, but the SI resources they try to load will be missing.
   
   I for one don't know of any way to "deactivate" the Shivering Isles DLC in a clean and safe way at all. Perhaps the Installer coming with the DLC has some means to restore your game back to pre-SI, but apparently in your case no such thing was utilized.
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      Elbethien

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      02 December 2014, 9:51PM

      Yea, my hope was to replay the DLC by temporary deactivating it. Thank you for explaining this. Now I understand why I see all the SI things in CS every time I open something with it.
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      Dennywood

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      02 December 2014, 10:59PM

      To DrakeTheDragon, Thank you. It's always interesting
      to know the hidden reasons of some bugs.
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      Zella

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      03 December 2014, 12:35AM

      Yes, thank you for your explanation. I had wondered about this.