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Here's how I think I ended up with permanent heavy encumberence.

I was grabbing everything I could from the cellar underneath the toll house. This brought me first into encumbered, then into heavily encumbered, then beyond heavy encumbered. I noticed that when I attempted to pick up the "too much" item, that the struck-over text of heavily encumbered showed on the screen for a couple of seconds. But from that point on I simply could not pick up anything else. It would just remain in the containers. The Heavily Encumbered state remained.

When I then went to a merchant and bartered away all of the stuff, bringing my load back beneath even the encumbered state, the heavily encumbered state remained on the character.

It's as if when I attempted to overload the character, some part of the state got cleared when I overloaded completely, so that whilst the condition still exists, there is nothing for the game enginie to clear when I go back below the weight limit

I'm going to go back to a prior save, and avoid going over the total limit, and see if that helps.