I have looked for tutorials all over the internet on how to merge plugins in Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but none of them actually work

or make any sense. All I want to do is merge small plugins together so there are less esp's to load. I tried following the tutorial written

for FO3Edit but it does not make any sense. In the tutorial it says that you must have all plugins you want to merge be loaded before the .esp you

want them to merge into. However, FO3Edit won't allow you to merge plugins into another plugin if they are loaded before the plugin

you want to merge them into. So the tutorial goes completely against what FO3Edit allows you to do. That or I am doing it wrong. I

also tried using Fallout3Plugin but did not have much success with that because it seemed like some mods were conflicting or overwriting

one another. Any help would be appriciated; thanks.