Glad we could help (and in this case, lady = female <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />)
There is a reason for the other char's not folowing automatically, there are a few places in the game, where you need to seperate your char's to pull levers in in a specific place, while your other char goes through the door it opens, and then in return pulls a lever on the other side, so its companion can go through...
if it was auto follow, this would be impossible.
Not if it's done like it was in Dungeon Siege.
An option to turn auto control could be implemented as well.
I'm willing to do this in my own spare time as well if Larian would give me the portions of the source code that's needed.