Have the Magic Foci mod installed and was using it successfully for awhile. Lately all it will do is tell me that the Foci is not ready and to wait when I try to enable a Foci. Anyone have experience with this mod? TL

I have never heard of that mod (at least for Oblivion, for Morrowind there I remember something like that).
Maybe you should post a link to the mod.

It is an old mod by AlienSlof & Peter, inspired by Magical Trinkets of Tamreil(Morrowind), for Oblivion designed to be compatible with OOO changes to magic. A Google search does not show a current host for the mod. It allows one, when they have reached the needed level of expertise in a magic sphere, to channel a set constant drain on magica in return for a constant effect.