I was attempting to clear out my journal before heading into Trespasser. It was a pain in the ARGH to collect the Ancient Writings, since I had to keep respawning the Ancient Baths for those 3 Freemen who absolutely did not want to drop them. But, finally, 20-odd respawns in, I get my Writings. I turn the requisition in. And all that happened was my 5/5 Tomes and 3/3 Writings went to 5/5 and 0/3 (I had quite a load of extra Orlesian Tomes). At first I figured it was some bug due to me having so many unneeded Tomes, so I reloaded the game (because I was NOT about to farm those Freemen again), went and sold my Tomes, bought the precise number needed back, and went to turn in the requisition again. And what happened? The quest refreshed to 0/0 for both instead of completing.
Very frustrating. The ONLY quest remaining pre-Trespasser and upon finding this terribly old completely ignored thread, it's obvious that it'll be impossible to remove from my journal. This leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Hopefully I'll enjoy Trespasser enough to counter that.