[Creation kit skill trees not appearing]

This seems to be a common problem. I've made a thread on it and I've seen at least two other threads on the same issue.

[Perk Trees bugged in the CK]

Yeah, I've seen several other people too. I'm starting to think this may require some kind of hotfix from Bethesda.

[Perk Tree related crash]

Try running the CK as an administrator.

[Issue with accessing the perk tree.]

Same problem here. Nothing I do seems to fix it, including restarting, re-installing, etc.

[Perk Trees bugged in the CK]

So, the first problem I ran into was that trying to open perk trees under the actors menu crashed the CK. I fixed this by running CK as administrator. However, now when I click on perk trees button, it opens an empty dialogue box for all the skills. This happens even if I haven't loaded anything but the base Skyrim.esm file. Google isn't helping me find a solution to this one. Any ideas?

[Please help. I'm having difficulty with basic mod merging.]

I don't see any option to "Copy as override" when I right click on a perk. The menu options are: New, Edit, Duplicate, Delete, Create New Object Window, and Use Info. There's also nothing about override in the edit menu. Am I looking in the wrong place?

[Please help. I'm having difficulty with basic mod merging.]

I'm trying to take perks from someone else's mod and put them into my own mod for personal use. According to the online tutorial, I just need to rename the perk I want to transfer as a new object and set the .esp I want the perk into as the active file. Every time I try to do this, it copies EVERYTHING from the other .esm/esp into my .esp and not just that one perk. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

[Create a perk to change the weight of an item class.]

I'm trying to add a perk to alchemy that will reduce the weight of potions to 0. I found the control that will do that for armor, but there's nothing for other kinds of items. What's the best way to do this?