Yup those ellipses are normal because the Msg.xbb file from the patch contains all the edited dialogue, when you remove it the edited dialogue just won't show up in events.
Can you try using the regular Msg.xbb file, but not the confession file? I checked through the Msg.xbb file and it doesn't look like I messed anything up while editing it. I'm thinking that the ConfessionCommon is definitely what's wrong.
The regular Msg.xbb? Which one is that?