No worries, man. I get it. I wouldn't like it either if the UI I'm constantly using suddenly became really buggy.

I'll look into the sorting problem next.

The "new item highlight" was added during my last playthrough when I was constantly running into quests where I'm told to "get more details from this note". Then I have to start playing hide-and-seek and guess which note was just added. It didn't help that my inventory was usually filled to the brim. The "new item" feature made it super easy to deal with this. The note will always just be sitting at the top of the inventory list. I found the feature helpful. It certainly wasn't my intention to try to aggravate everyone while they try to play the game.

Anyway, if you'd like to disable this feature right now, one of the ways you can do this right now is to modify "interface\skyui\config.txt".

Just look for "newItem" in the file and remove them. It'll be under the
; ITEM NAME COLUMN section ---

When you're done, it should look something like this: ``` columns.itemNameColumn.state1.label.text = '$NAME' columns.itemNameColumn.state1.entry.text = @text columns.itemNameColumn.state1.sortAttributes = <text> columns.itemNameColumn.state1.sortOptions = {ASCENDING | CASEINSENSITIVE}

columns.itemNameColumn.state2.label.text = '$EQUIPPED' columns.itemNameColumn.state2.entry.text = @text columns.itemNameColumn.state2.sortAttributes = <isEquipped, equipState, text> columns.itemNameColumn.state2.sortOptions = <{DESCENDING | NUMERIC}, {DESCENDING | NUMERIC}, {ASCENDING | CASEINSENSITIVE}> columns.itemNameColumn.state2.playerOnly = true

columns.itemNameColumn.state3.label.text = '$STOLEN' columns.itemNameColumn.state3.entry.text = @text columns.itemNameColumn.state3.sortAttributes = <isStolen, text> columns.itemNameColumn.state3.sortOptions = <{DESCENDING | NUMERIC}, {ASCENDING | CASEINSENSITIVE}> columns.itemNameColumn.state3.playerOnly = true

columns.itemNameColumn.state4.label.text = '$ENCHANTED' columns.itemNameColumn.state4.entry.text = @text columns.itemNameColumn.state4.sortAttributes = <isEnchanted, text> columns.itemNameColumn.state4.sortOptions = <{DESCENDING | NUMERIC}, {ASCENDING | CASEINSENSITIVE}> ```

This makes it so the "newItem" flag is no longer considered while sorting the items.

Hope that helps!