Telnet: You should really consider playing a less addictive game. A bout of World of Warcraft should sober you up!
akwater: Can't give up....must save world... er catch more butterflies and pick more leeks and potatoes!
(seriously I started a new toon.... lvl 20 thief/archer/vamp (although Ive been trying to cure the vamp for over 7 hours REAL time now) and I've yet to kill my first dragon heheh)
If you are playing on PC you might be able to google up the NPC object id and use the console [activated with the Tilde key [~/`]] to move yourself to him/him to you (though I have read some forum posts on the nexus stating that NPC's can clone themselves if you use the console to move them to you]. You may also have to manually advance the quest stage[s] if something went wonky :/
One thing reliable about Bethesda games is bugs - at least they haven't lost their touch ;)
-- On the dragons note; I have fought 5 [2 scripted, 3 random encounters] and not a single one [outside of the first scripted one] has given me the "knowledge" to use the words of power I have picked up by dungeon crawling :/. I "know" like 5 shouts, but can only use 2 [the first one you get [which gets "trained" to max "power" via questing along the MQ] and the second one you get as part of the initial MQ line. The other words are just sitting there grayed out and mocking me :(