Ok 1: the total amount of money from the pre war money i got from the casino, the gold bars, and the extra sierra madre chips i had EQUALS 500,000 caps, i dont have that much.
(watch the video to see what I say below. This works because ive done it)
2: When you open the vault door, you need to smash the generator to the turrets, WITHOUT entering the vault, then move over to the other side and use the terminal to disable the computer. once this is done, exit the vault, DONT go in to it, go over to the stairs to your right hand side and place all of your explosives at the base of the stairs (ie, gas bombs, C4, etc etc) then enter the vault, (the door will close behind you) and grab all the gold, money, loot you want, use the terminal on the desk to read the second log which is a letter to vera, from sinclair. after you read the 5 page letter about hoe he loves her, back out of the computer and do not read further. Father Elijah will pop up on a Screen in front of you and you will discuss with him, you must tell him you are going to destroy the logs on the computer (science 75) and he will come and confront you, opening the vault for you to get out. you will be over encumbered so you'll end up walking out. before you leave, be sure to pick up the fire extinguisher thingy from up off the floor of the vault and take it with you. leave the vault and walk over to your right where you placed your explosives and drop the air tank/fire extingusher thing in the pile. it will look like you can escape but a forcefield will pop up in front of the door way on top of the stairs before you can leave. father Elijah will come down behind the forcefield and breifly say a few words to you out side of dialouge. run into the barrier and kee running against it to get in it when the explosives go off in the chamber, disabling the forcefield and knocking you forward through the forcefeild. Father Elijah is then launched the other way into the explosives you previously placed. killing him, completing that part of the quest. you then get up off your face and simply walk to the elevator and leave. you dont have to go through the suites as you already know. you end up in the villa and from there you leave the sierra madre with all the gold bars.
and does this look fake to you guys?