I know everybody likes Skyrim, but give me some credit: The game has more retarded bugs than Big Rigs. The latest bug I ran into is related to the Dark Brotherhood questline, some nice guards informed me that a kid was trying to summon them, so I went to take a look. The kid ordered me to kill somebody at an orphanage, so I went there and put an arrow in the back of her skull while everybody was watching (causing some other grown women to run around in a loop constantly screaming the same line of dialog, hooray for play-testing). I remembered from my time in Oblivion that the brotherhood comes to you in your sleep, so I went back to my home with the reward still in my pocket and slept for a while with no result.
I tried sleeping a few more times until my character literally hadn't done anything for two days after which I decided to fire up a walkthrough. To my surprise though I was doing everything by the book and after 24 in-game hours the brotherhood was supposed to approach me already. I read about going to a different town, but that had no effect either and the messenger that was supposed to come didn't show up either.
Any suggestions on how to fix?