Originally Posted by Nerevarine
By the way, still no luck in finding a method for disabling/removing patches and rolling back to a previous version, so to anyone currently playing Skyrim with mods, do not get the update just yet - I am beginning to fear that once you get an update, you are stuck.

I am instituting my own backups. Before I re-enable Steam to go "online" and stealth update, I am backing up everything in the Skyrim installation folder.