The Elder Scrolls problems

[Emperor Inferno]

1) But I'm playing on console! In which case you're fucked, you'll just have to accept all of the 2845 bugs you will encounter on any given playthrough, welcome to the Elder Scrolls console experience

Damn, cause I am on 360. Plus, while I save every tiny thing and never erase any ( I'm up to save number 475) I had gotten halfway through thieves guild, then started and finished mages guild, then finished thieves guild, all before encountering my no bounty Erasure problem. Power leveling sneak to master in the opening of the game and necking chameleon potions lets you get away with literally everything, then wouldn't ya know it, I hit the activate button on an NPC, they move, and boom, one accidentally stolen sweetroll unlocks a bunch of unreported crimes and, holy fuck, my bounty's 450,000

 

[Emperor Inferno]

In Oblivion, the sands of resolve gotten from the necromancer in the first dark brotherhood contract given by Lucien lachance, does that hourglass do anything?