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i've just installed Tribunal and Bloodmoon and whenever i try to play now it gives me the message 'Failed to load snowflake: Meshes\BM_Snow_01.nif'

I thought at first that it might be because i'd attempted to add some mods and it hadn't worked so i uninstalled everything and just reinstalled Morrowind, Tribunal and Bloodmoon and not the mods. But it's still giving me the error message.

Open up the Morrowind.ini file and look for this entry

[Archives]
Archive 0=Tribunal.bsa
Archive 1=Bloodmoon.bsa

...if it's not there, put it in.

Should be right in front of the long list under the [Weather Snow] header.

Just checked and it's there, also having played with it more, it's only bloodmoon, I never had any issues with our old comp which had windows xp whereas the new comp has windows 7

Check the faq's here, I think I saw something related to running the game as administrator under Win7 or is it Vista? Install in a different directory or have to specify administrator every time you run it, that kind of thing. I'm XP so I don't know because I haven't researched problems with Win7.

My next OS is gonna be Ubuntu, I'm fed up with the [&@%!] Microsoft code problems, tired of having to worry about the next hack Norton or McAfee comes up with in their black ops basements.

i managed to fix the problem with it not allowing to me to add mods in by going into the folder, clicking properties then security and giving myself permission to edit things, also a few other problems have now popped up, the netch leather cuirass (i think) comes up with an error that leaves behind a giant yellow blob with a grey exclamation mark, the same for the dark brotherhood members that attack you when you're asleep except it's all their armor, it's slightly disturbing to be chased by a yellow blob that wants to kill you

Sounds like your Tribunal installation is messed up in some way. You said it's only Bloodmoon now? Both archive entrys have to be there and in that order, if they are, try uninstalling, then reinstalling the trio again. They must be installed in this order:

1)Morrowind
2)Tribunal
3)Bloodmoon

Perhaps your registry is faulty too. I would first run my registry cleaner, CCleaner. If no fixy, uninstall, run cleaner, install the 3, run cleaner, then try the game.