I assuredly had progressed, the autosave was just after she was made a waitress, I completed it and had the trigger for the next quest involving ginny and the church, then chose to reload the auto save just after her recent employment, but it was stuck on a perpetual "Wait a few days" for her quest on her working as a waitress. I started a new game and plan to save prior to the battle of choice between lira and heleviel. I'm still hoping there's a future where we can get them both. For example, if you let heleviel remain as high priestess, you could come back a few days later under the pretence of a meeting between "Dignitaries" and then kidnap her, forcing her into servitude. And just have a generic background no-name priestess take over the position. That way, you get both lira and heleviel, also both the sword and tiara from both sides.