I am absol,utelly shure it's no the other way around (if it was the other way around I would have done a serious mistake...). I saved levels (only lvled up once as a scoundrel, to get those lvls as jedi) if you wonder how I did it. Of chorse, on Taris I was totally dependent on my henchmen, but now I'm starting to become a mean motha... good, I'm becomeing good...
Übereil
So you basically screwed up your character: the whole point of a Scoundrel is that you get many ability points to raise your invisibility, persuation, security and traps. By neglecting all that, you complicated your life as your character is still a scoundrel by heart (minimum hitpoints and saving throws). You don't get the special Scoundrel special abilities too.
The game was made with leveling-up in mind: you shouldn't have had any trouble playing at all. You seem to neglect that on
many occasions in the game, you get to use persuation to gain much more benefit (XP and reward) than simply fighting the enemy. Often you can make your life much easier by spamming mines arround and you might get powerful items faster if you know how to open locks.
I may be wrong by typing all this, after all it's your choice, but I always feel upset when somebody plays a great
Role-Playing Game as if it were just another shooter: Kill-kill-kill-grab new weapon-kill-kill-kill...