I just purchased the morrowinds game of the year edition and after installing all 3 discs and trying to play, I get an error message that says "Failed to load snowflake: Meshes\BM_snow_01.nif." Has anyone else gotten this message and how do I resolve it?

Read the pinned threads for Vista/Windows7 problems.
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/781497-vistawindows-7-problems/