Two bugs at once: Hotkey and Return Scepter

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My game has simultaneously developed two bugs: there's a 40 minute (in-game) delay after launch before I can access any hotkey other than the one already highlighted at launch. And, I'm unable to use the Return Scepter. Once I can click on the hotkey associated with the Scepter, the square indicator that indicates what square around my Player is active, but doesn't ever land on my Player. Left or Right Mouse key = no joy because Player isn't the active square.

PC, Running Win 11, using keyboard and mouse
None of my keys are re-mapped.
Running SDV 1.6.15 Build 24356
Single-player
In game day: Winter 28, Year 2.

Purchased the Scepter on Winter 27, Year 2, and it did not work. I decided to sleep and close my game session. Launched again and still no joy. I'm running many mods which, up until this, have shown no problems.


Mods: (everything up to date as of last week, see attached SMAPI log)
-SMAPI 4.2.1
-Content Patcher 2.6.1
-Generic Mod Config Menu 1.14.1
-SVE
-Farm Type Manager
-Frontier Farm
-Automate
-Chests Anywhere
-Automatic Gates
-Automatic Animal Doors
-Ladder Locator
-Pony Weight Loss Program
-Skull Cavern Elevator
-NPC Map Locations
-Zoom Level
-Fishing Made Easy
-Also had all of Weather Wonders and its subs installed, but uninstalled them when the error began to show. SMAPI had been showing one of the subs (Wind Effects) as incompatible, although prior to Winter 27, Year 2 I had experienced no problems with any of the Weather Wonders subs. Removing the weather mods had no effect on the delay in hotkey selection or the Return Scepter bug.

I'm not interested in removing any of the other mods. SDV has run perfectly well with these mods for months, and, in some cases, (SVE, I'm looking at you), I cannot remove the mod without buggering the whole game.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

ETA: Forgot to say that I also had Steam "Verify the Integrity of Files" and it showed no problems.
 

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