Bugs or Features?

[wooden]

I’ve been enjoying DF for a few weeks, I love the features and I’m enjoying the difficulty curve. Unfortunately, the bugs/features I’m encountering are really beginning to spoil the experience for me. A short list of the most disappointing bugs/misunderstood features:

Dark brotherhood: joined guild and successfully completed initiation mission.
- spend 60 secs or more in DB guild hall and I begin to get struck by invisible arrows (sound effects, arrows in inventory, no moving sprites in building, just the essential guild npcs)
-successfully completed 1st mission after initiation, still a lousy rep with guild mates (few will TALK with me) Does rep with with DB always start so low? I created my character with a rep boost with the Underworld. Is this a result of my revered status bug? See below.
-2nd guild mission is 2 stages. I successfully complete the first stage well within the time limit. I stop in a city on the way to my 2nd target and visit a different DB guild hall. I’m informed that I’ve been expelled due to my rep. This is about 2 in game weeks after successfully completing my first mission and I haven’t participated in any other guild quests that might have ruined my rep with the DB.
Fighters guild – accept quest, speak to quest giver immediately and he rewards me for the quest even though I never left the room. This worked multiple times.
Fast Travel – join knight order, do no quests or advance in any way – instant free fast travel (perhaps tied to revered status? See next item) I thought advancement was required to gain this reward.
Legal rep - commit crime, resist surrender, become revered. Every single time. I understand that this is a known bug, but how does legal rep ever work in that case?

Any advice, input, sympathy, insults? Are these features I’m not understanding? Most of these issues are at odds with what I find on the wiki, FAQs and readmes. How do you fans deal with this or do some just get lucky with bugs? Is a reinstall worthwhile? I’m using version 213 bundled with dosbox from a link here on the wiki. I’d go to the origin site, but it’s in French.
Thanks for reading. I’d be happy to clarify further, I’m kind of rambling and rushing.

[LauZ]

Many questgivers may response in the way of the figthers guild... bug
Also, I got expeled from the arkay temple while i was doing a quest, so... I assume they don't like me. Probably, if you have low rep, they may expel you randomly (lets say they had/want to) to give more realism, assuming they consider you unworthy (they just don't like youu)

Well, Daggerfall will have randomly bugs for the eternity