Actually, it might just be that you didn't load a savegame from before entering the area the first time. That's probably the reason, I was just asking in case there's a bug.
@Kex That would probably be the case. I don't actually have a good set of savegames for Kotor 1 (since eons ago when my LP stopped after my HDD failure.
After this fallout stuff dies down hopefully I can get abck to it