Being attacked for no reason and stupid companions

I recently installed Arcanum for the hundredth time. I've had it since it came out but for one reason or another have never completed it. I installed the game, the 1.074 patch, the unofficial patch V091225, the high res patch, the Virgial.dat file and the character editor v1.8. Everything installed fine and works. I recently arrived in Tarant and when I went to talk to the gambling master dwarf in one of the clubs, he attacked me. I was trying to train to master (already expert) and I lost one throw of the dice. I asked to play again and he called me a dirty human or something and attacked. I went to another club and some other guy attacked me. I'm playing a good character so I don't know the problem there.
The other issue is that I used dynamite to open a locked door to a warehouse and my companions just stood right next to it. I ran away but they stayed and Sog Mead Mug was blown to hell and back.
Thanks

 

They spotted a hostile creature behind the wall through a window and went into combat mode, but since they can't reach it, they just stand next to the wall. Ordering them to back off with F5 would do the trick.

 

Thanks for the quick reply! That would make sense. After I got in there were those spider robot things in there.