Extra Talents for Origin Companions?

I noticed a couple days ago that Gorim had an extra talent than he was supposed to. Then I noticed it happen on the other two DN companions you pick up. I had the "No Follower Auto-Level" mod going that reduces all companions to zero Talents so you can choose them yourself, so I thought that mod might be malfunctioning somehow. It would work fine at first, no extra Talents after selecting them, but if I saved, left the game, and then reloaded, extra Talents would be on all the companions. I tried it with all the other origins (except mage because it's too long to get to Jowan)- Leske, Soris, Tamlen, Gorim,  and it was the same thing except for the HN since Ser Gilmore seemed ok.

OK, so I disabled "No Follower" and the game gave the usual starting Talents to the companions... but the same issue happened on reload. So I uninstalled DAO and reinstalled. Same thing. So this time I literally deleted the entire My Documents DAO folder and deleted the entire Steam Apps DAO folder- eliminated. Then I reinstalled from Steam again, put no mods into it whatsoever, tried it again from total vanilla: same thing!

Is this a fluke in DAO I've simply never noticed before? Most of the time I don't reload during the Origins segment, so it would never show up. And when I would reload, I wouldn't end up checking the Talents tab on otherwise temporary companions. Or could there be something in some other folder that's screwy? I'm worried to proceed with the game since I don't want, say, Alistair and Leliana getting extra Talents too, but reloads from well past the Origins section with them show no problems with their Talents- all as they should be. I'm figuring it just has something to do with Origins companions, but still... dismaying to replay an Origin story just due to some technical glitch, and I've already done it twice on my poor DN...