ok i got a few mods on my list that require tribunal. now i have tribunal and all cause some of these mods are running right now. but there are others that have the "tribunal.ESM" and/or the "morrowind.ESM" when your selecting data files capitalized. on these ones it says that there is a problem since the last time it was used but i have never used it. is this something that can be solved by a tribunal update? or do i have to go in and change the ESM file.?

I think i know what you're talking about. There really shouldn't be a problem when you actually run the mod. If you want that error to go away then you can open up the CS, select both morrowind and tribunal then the mod that's giving you an error and set it as the active file. All you have to do then is save it and that should update the mod so you don't get the error. If that doesn't work then I don't know what the problem could be.

I just ignore those, never a problem really, just a bit of an annoyance.
As Than said, you can fix that in the TESCS. It should mention about that in the readme in the main morrowind directory anyway:)

didn't know that, i just didn't want to load the game and have it burn my computer to the ground again. my computer does not recover very well from crashes.

thanks for the go ahead guys