Changing Faces

[Naufragous77]

Ever since MacKom released his phenomenal head textures, I've been trying to strictly use mods that don't add too many faces, so to keep a sense of unity in my current game-play. Recently, I fired up my spellsword character and instantly wanted to change Julan's face. He stuck out like a sore thumb. However, he's been in my current play-through for some hundred or two hundred hours, so the record goes back quite a bit. I looked in Emma's FAQs and she said:

"a) MAKE A SAFETY COPY OF YOUR SAVED GAME!!!
b) Place the copy of your savedgame in the Morrowind data files folder. Rename your saved game from an ess-file to an esp-file (right-click on the save and hit rename.Exchange the letters ".ess" with ".esp", hit enter).
c) open up TES Construction set, highlight your renamed esp-file and mark it with "X". Hit the "details"-button (don't load the esp, just hit details).
d) In the details-list, look for and highlight a line called “NPC”+the ID-name of your npc, for instance "NPC-1AA_Morgana". DELETE this line. Use the "delete"-tab. You will get a question if you really want to delete the line, say OK to this. If you look in the details list, you will now see a "|" in front of the NPC-1AA_Morgana-line. This means that you have successfully deleted the line. Please note: there is also a line called "NPCC-1AA_Morgana". DON'T touch this line.
e) Close the TES Construction set (do not save or load the esp-file, just close TES construction set)
f) Go back to your data files folder and find the saved game esp. Right click and hit rename. Exchange the letters ".esp" with ".ess".
g) place your updated ess-file among your saved games. Now, you are ready to play.
Please note: this is rare, but some people may have to do one extra step, as they have problems to revert their new esp back to an ess. This is how to fix it:
go to “start” hit my computer, hit tools, hit view and uncheck the last line "hide file extensions"
hit apply now go back and now right click on the esp and hit rename and place the s where your p was."

 

... I tried this method and each time CS crashed on me. I tried opening it up with Enchanted Editor, which I'm less familiar with, and toyed around a bit. I deleted the subrecord of face and hair and that just left him without a face - not an exclamation mark, just a helmet with an invisible head. I tried a few things, but I'm afraid the more I try, more I gamble in destroying what I've built over something as small as personal aesthetics. I was wondering if anyone knew of a alternative method, seeing that CS crashes every time...?