if you're character is male than you should get her automatically after leaving the telos academy. after you look at the recording of your trial, the handmaiden should come in and say that those are atris's records.
i fail to understand how anyone could have trouble on malachor v. the greater storm beast was easy, all the sith in the academy were easy, sion was easy, in fact the only part i had a little trouble on was against kreia's three lightsabers.
but those crystals were added content, because they were added to the game after the orignal version was released. if the pc version had been released at the same time as the xbox version than those crystals would not have been part of the game. they were added to the game, which is why they are only available through xbox live on the xbox version.
if you've ever role played using the d20 system than it would be a lot easier to understand. basically everything you do comes down to the roll of a 20 sided die plus your ability modifier
i never used any of the droids, but i did end up using bao-dur a lot once i turned him into a jedi. since he becomes a gaurdian he gets more hp per level.
i think that if they do make a kotor 3 than there gonna make a kotor 4, and finish up the series in kotor 5. for some reason i just see it happening that way. lets face it, i really dont think there going to answer all the questions in kotor 3. theres just to many.
bao-dur was a great character. he didnt want to talk about the war which is why he doesnt tell you any war stories. i like his voice cause it had a nice sarcastic tone to it. especially on nar shadda when he says. "i'll take the stupid one who decided to speak instead of shooting when he had the chance." all in all he was a pretty well developed character but i would have liked to know a little bit more about his back story from before he joined the war.