> The only solution around this, as
> was suggested by someone else on
> this list, is to give the item to
> a mob and then kill the mob to loot
> the item.
>
> This doesn't work anymore,
> unfortunately. Since the latest
> patch, I think.

It worked for me last night with Lydl the Great outside the South Gates of
freeport. The item you get from him for a quest was able to be given to a
decaying skeleton so that I could give it to someone else.

*shrug*