I ran fliggerty's oblivion style casting thinking that the internal MWSE in MGE could handle it. I turned off the mod, and the game was fine.
Oh, and any idea as to what this warning is? : "TES3Stream Warning: Model "Meshes\w\W_Longsword_ebony.nif" tex not found "@forE5.dds"!" I dont know what mod is lacking what...