Using any hotkey makes weapons draw & holster. help please

[Mookeylama]

got the strangest problem. no matter what i place in hotkeys, 360 controller or keyboard (with 360 controls turned off or pad never plugged in), when i use the key, any modded weapon that i'm holding gets holstered and redrawn very quickly. it's only modded weapons and doesn't matter whats hotkey'd. clothes, items, food. i normally have a backpack, invisi-bandana, and device for controlling companions, hotkeyd and it's always worked fine before. now i hotkey equip backpack...and quickly slap my rifle on my back and redraw it! i've disabled all 140 some mods and still happens. it kinda started when my FOMM broke. after it broke, i moved it from it's own file to inside the main FNV directory and fomm worked again. but i saw what looked like broken fomods here and there. i'd go into the separate folder that i'd made for a particular mod and the files would look weird and i couldn't open them. they just said "fomm archive".

 

anyway, that may not have anything to do w/ it other than timing. what i REALLY think did it is 2 times now, STEAM has totally and w/o permission from me, reinstalled the whole game. i didn't think it caused any harm. i did notice that it changed the name and function of a couple mod added items but that's it. everything seemed the same...except now this hotkey thing. the 1st time i had done nothing, and after the reinstall, hotkeys were fine. the 2nd i was mucking around in the meshes/_male folder trying to change weapon anims, and i noticed it was reinstalling. took 2 hours lol. i know it's not anything i did in that file tho since i can remove _male altogether and hotkeys are still borked. this may be a game ender since the holster/draw thing often crashes game. why only modded weapons?!

 

could it be because i was messing w/ game files when that last reinstall occured? if so i i'd try to initiate another reinstall, but don't know how. how do i make STEAM reinstall like it did before? is there something in the ini i might change to fix the hotkeys? any info appreciated!!