hmm mine must have glitched then or something, cuz I lost to her this patch to make sure nothing like that changed and then tried 2 go back and the same thing happens. Also when I beat her the first time I got the darkbomb spell but no new area opened up like you are talking about. (edit) hmm I found an earlier save I had luckily and letting her win seemed to work that way. So seems fixed for now, thanks for the tip.