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Just as a follow up, I did find Ark of Truth's tutorial about ESPs and it turns out the edit was much simpler than I expected it to be. In fact, I'm actually a bit embarrassed tbh. But it did work, so thanks anyways

So after getting CK on my comp finally, I thought I would attempt a "simple" project to start poking around in CK by taking one of the followers from the rk followers mod and seeing if I could successfully delete her Bullseye archery perk as it in fact became a bit game breaking for me (it makes paralyzed enemies a bit easier to handle than I want them to be, and boy, when she accidently paralyzes my squishy mage in the melee, hahahaha.... not good).   So I opened up CK, and selected the Skyrim.esm, clicked through the warnings. Then in the data window I find rk_follwers.esp and double right click it to set it active. But now I don't know if I should click ok to make the edit, click set as active file, or just click the details button, etc. Right now I am just tinkering and trying to see if I can accidentally stumble across what to do as my ignorance is at an all time high in trying this out (I did make sure to make a full back up of my current Skyrim folder just to be on the safe side though).   This is by no means a major priority for me at the moment, but I thought while I am googling and trying to navigate my way through this (albeit blindly) I would post here in case any had some time on their hands and felt like chiming in.   Thanks!

Thanks so much, but it was the current version of my modded game that I lost (my first pure mage paly through, but only at lvl 28, so I can live with it, and I use NMM, I haven't moved to MO though, I know, noobish of me). I have my cleaned files and the fresh install backed up to another drive, so if you get this in time, I would hate for you to go through the trouble. I've had the game up and running for about ten min now and just going through the mod install process again. In any event though, MANY thanks to you    

So I'm no mega poster, but I've been on site for a few years now and have come to appreciate the expertise and advice by LL members, and thought I'd ask this here.   After a horrible mess of a few hours of trying to get steam to install the creation kit last night, I was at an utter loss as it just would not do so. I have my Skyrim on a separate ssd drive (F) and tried installing to different librairies, including the one steam defaulted to and the F install drive, and even deleted all the steam files/folders except for steamapps, steam exe., and user data to get steam to "repair" itself (in the horror of those events, steam somehow still managed to delete my steam apps folder too, meaning, bye-bye Skyrim game   thank god I have a fresh install copy backed up).  I got the missing steam_api.dll errors etc as my closest sign of maybe installing it. Anyways, it was an aggravating experience with no success.   So I started looking for alternate downloads that weren't steam based. I did find them, and from the comments I read, it seemed that "pirate" was the term I saw a lot regarding the non-steam copy of the creation kit and its target base.    I certainly have a legal copy of Skyrim (two if you consider my xbox 360 copy before I entered the PC world of gaming) so I'm wondering if the "non-steam" creation kit version will still work for me if I decide to try it (after scanning for viruses of course).   I'd like to try my hand at armor modding in the coming months, and while I can get blender and nifskope just fine, something tells me I'll be needing that elusive creation kit too.   Any thoughts from someone who has used this non-steam version (or hell, even how to get the steam copy to properly install for that fact!) would be very much appreciated.   Thanks!

Well, that seemed to do it. Considering I lost my current install of Skyrim during last night's debacle (which I feel I am taking rather well, though I still would like to see a mod with GabeN's head on a pike, thus giving me a reason to install the Alive peeing mod) I can now move forward with trying my hand at learning how to make some armor mods and learn some cool tools like nifskope and blender in the process.   Again, thanks for the input!

Yeah, trying to install CK on a separate ssd that I bought and use for Skyrim only. I'm going to delete and reinstall steam altogether for now and try to reinstall it to my F drive (as I don't play anything else but Skyrim anyhow and I have to use a fresh install anyways) and see if I can get some resolution from that.   Thanks so much for all of the very speedy and useful replies, I was right to post my problem to the LL community.   Will report back for the sake of following up.