spent a few hours last night and some time this morning getting some FO 3 mods installed just some gameplay stuff. it was a pain in the ass at least fo3edit tells you what went wrong instead of being cryptic.
I tried to install the updated unofficial FO3 patch installed but kept getting a out of memory errors even after installing the memory fix patch I did get the standard unofficial FO3 patch installed.
now I can actually test it all out if all is well I might start looking into doing some of the location and/or quest mods.