Here we go again - Henchmen bugs

I've been hit by this annoying -bug- err.. feature before. A henchmen stuck in a somewhere while the rest of the party is killed making it impossible to continue a mission. Has it been fixed, can we now force the party to be resurrected ?

I am doing Final Assault and after slugging for more than an hour through Sorrow Furnace and finally arriving at the Rage Binder's place only to witness my henchmen bravely stood against the overwhelming odds called the Furnace Fire (Flame?) refusing my order to retreat. Since I did not bring a res signet, I let myself be killed.

Second time around, the same thing happened except that Devona is still alive.... and stuck in a loop about ten miles from where we are ...

I have logout just yet in hope that someone would tell me how to force my party to be ressurected at the res point. Anyone ?

its a bug that keeps hench from realising "hey... I might actually be stuck here.. should I move around whats in the way? nah... everyone is dead, this is good." First time this happened for me I had traveled from Piken Square to Grendich Courthouse. I saw the portal in, talked to the crafter and then decided ti just see what was further down the path. In my ignorance I did not know the courthouse was an outpost and did not want to zone to a new area just yet. So on down the path I go to promply get owned by a bunch of devouer... we all died but Stefan who was having a chat behind the Courthouse sign with the collector. Needless to say he would not come and die so I had to map back to Piken Square and start over again. This was back in May of 05....

my last experience like this... Durham decided to get stuck behind a mountain at the iceflow to Grotto. There he paced back and forth as myself and the remaining 6 henchies got slaughtered by ice imps and mursaat elementals. Eventually he managed to get around the mountain and join the rest of us dead party members to die so we could rezone.

I believe its a bump detection issue... with probably no solution...

THis is the kind of thing that can make me quite irritable. That and the 'I'm the last henchman alive so I'll just run bakc and forth a bit until they get really angry rather than resurrecting the Healer' syndrome. ONe of the times the former has happened is the Shiverpeak Quest which needs you to blow up some levers, but for some reason the Henchies decided that standing near the Station was a good plan; and there they stayed. The latter happened to me in The Ring Of Fire Mission, Mhenlo wouldn't stop to resurrect anyone so 2 minutes later, I mapped back to outpost. *sigh* No wonder it took me a while to complete the game.