Is there any way to get a workbench to start a conversation with the PC as opposed to just lunging into the modification screen? Is this impossible? I just thought that seeing as how the workbench on Taris does a tutorial before starting, I could do it too.
yes by giving it a dialog you could look at the taris apartment for how to do it or get redhawke's Kotor 1 workbench mod.
Try the .dlg field in the .utp, and delete the OnClick script (or whatever it is).