The Artist God issue was not fixed by replacing the files.
AND BTW: I'm not sure exactly why but the game doesn't handle overwriting saves very well. especially saving over files that you have completed a few quests that you intend to re-do because you F@cked up something. It tends to duplicate / place items that were not supposed to be there. Or delayed quest triggers. From what I observed it just merges the data in the files. O my re-do I started to move the files as a in a backup folder then save on CLEAN save slots.