I'm checking out animation replacers and specifically http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=21475 ATM. I have the nif's correctly renamed (I think) and placed - and indeed they show up in game fine, but only once in a while. That is, if casting Restore Health on self I get the replacer animation the first time, but then the vanilla animation a couple of times before the replacer one is shown once in a while again. The same with the other animations I've checked. Seems odd as it should be either/or as with other straight replacers as I understand it. How can it show the replacer one time - and the vanilla animation the next? I'm using BSA Redirection.
Also, while I'm at it, when starting a new game I had Supreme Magicka's change to starting spells on, which I didn't want, so I started a new game and everything seemed as it should. But in the Imp City a little while later I notice that my char doesn't have a Flare spell - isn't it a starting spell for all chars? Checking in TES4Edit doesn't show anything - but I'm testing out a lot of pose/animation etc. mods ATM so perhaps something has messed it up.