secund thing could not be a bug, but do you have the halberd from the curesed abby? It DRAINS your STAMINA.

heres a screenie of it
http://kiya1.bei.t-online.de/images/Div_Halberd.jpg

I cant help you with the first thing, altough i have read about it on this forum somewhere...

Joliekiller, paladin on a crusade against (almost) all evil.