Tail problems

[Dlesang]

If questions about how to work around the Construction Set's bugs/ glitches go someplace else, please let me know and I'll put my questions there.

 

Here's my problem, two in fact.

 

I'm trying to make a new feline race for myself. I'll eventually add a custom head to make them look more house-catish than the lion-headed Khajiit.

 

But every time I try to add the tail, I get bone-related errors, and the tail misbehaves. This is not my first try making these cat-people. The tail worked perfectly before. Why is it suddenly different?

 

I tried googling for answers. The best I found suggested changing the skeleton to use skeletonbeast.nif. This fixed the problem with the tail, and added a whole new one! Now I have no idle animation.

 

I encountered this problem while trying to find a work-around for my first problem [chronologically speaking]. When I first made my catfolk race, everything worked perfectly. Textures looked good, animations were good, everything was cool. Then, without explanation, the female textures turned a murky gray-blue, the facial texture changed to the dark elf facial texture, and would cause a game-crash whenever the game tried to load a female catfolk.

 

Please someone tell me how to fix this. I had it all working so nicely, and now it's all falling apart.

 

Here's a look at my latest attempt to make this work. I'm using the default khajiit textures for everything on them, save for the eyes. The eye textures here were my creation.

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22554025/misc/fentri%20preview.jpg