I will mark them with an EDIT note for ease of review. I will add to either section if and when I encounter further bugs/glitches. For balance, I have included these below the bugs. Has anyone else encountered any of these, want to add to the list or have solutions for them? But as with all bad things, there are some things that make the game better then it was. This is more a list for other players to view rather then a complaint to Bethesda.
I have made a record of all the bugs/glitches that I have encountered during the opening scenes and listed them here. However, I found that this had no effect what-so-ever. I decided i'd start a new character to see if the issues were just a result of patching an already 'in progress' game. Since downloading the 1.8 patch for Skyrim, I have encountered several bugs and glitches.