I just got a reply that they are working on it. I tried to move on a little bit more and in chapter 2, in order to get to the secret gold mine behind the Farmer's house, you HAVE to go through his fields but you can't go through the fields because the staff is there poisoning his fields and the only way to A. get the staff which is an awesome weapon and B get to the gold mine is to get blessed at that damned temple, so again....stuck.
If there is some huge problem, I don't know why they just don't tell us that but I can't imagine its that hard to find the missing temple files and patch the game .... or if there is some other corruption as to why the temple files are being re routed to that empty field ....