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I may have encountered a bug but I am not sure. I want to know if anyone else has encountered this problem.
After the Spellhold dream sequence is done and Irenicus tells Bodhi to finish us off, the party is transported to the dungeon. The problem I have is that no matter where Aerie is in my party order, she always appears under Bodhi's platform in a non-accessible area. Aerie is still a member of the party but she is immobilized and does not respond to any clicks, similar to when a character is held. When I click the group select button all the characters highlight except her. Whenever I try to go to the next level of the dungeon, I keep getting the message that all party members must present. Any ideas?

Oh, for more information, I have a full party not including Imoen.
The party members besides my character are:
Keldorn
Minsc
Valygar
Aerie
Jaheria
I have told Imoen to sneak out on her own so we can meet back at the Copper Coronet.

Yes I'd say that was a bug. I had Aerie in my party at that time and I never had any problems. You might try using those cheats that let you transport your party to a different location. If you don't want to do that, as a last resort you could dimiss Aerie before letting Irenicus capture you. The spellhold dungeon isn't that long, and you could get her back afterwards. Get her to wait in the asylum and you should be able to pick her up later.
PS. What's your PC? You don't seem to have a thief or much spell power. I would have thought Imoen was exactly what your party needed. I would suggest perhaps dumping Jaheira and keeping Imoen. I found Aerie was more than enough priest, and Jaheira's a pretty useless fighter (And you have three good fighters).

Not sure about the bug with Aerie. Can you back it up a bit (like to where you enter Spellhold) and try again from there?

As far as his party goes, Keldorn, Minsc, and Valygar ought to be able to deal with just about any fight without needing magic. Since he doesn't have any thief skills in the party I would guess his main character has them but it is possible to do the game without...just difficult.

Yes, my character is a fighter/mage/thief. She was imported from BGI and really rocks, especially being able to backstab with a long sword, cast protective spells, and has a very low THAC0. Most of the time I just use her to explore and take out whatever I find and bring the party along when I need to.

As to the problem at hand the only other thing I can think of about Aerie that is different is that she does have the Staff of the Magi and the spell trap is active (after the fight with the cowled wizard to get the ward stone to enter spellhold). I guess I will go back and try and wait until the spell expires before entering spellhold and see if that changes anything. I was just hoping that I wouldn't have to go too far back but I was not smart and my most recent save other than the auto-save is many days back.