However i still cant get the console to come up when i press the key (its "?" on my keyboard by the way) , i used to play morrowind years ago and had no problem with it then, is there any way to check which key is allocated to the console?
If you're on Vista or W7, http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/781497-vistawindows-7-problems/page__p__11389133entry11389133.
You might also have an international keyboard, and then Morrowind might not recognize any button as they console button. (default is the tilde key ~ )
The easiest thing for you to do, is use http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1117223-morrowind-graphics-extender-mge/ for its Macro feature. That way you can make any button you want act as the console button.
(Note that you don't have to use any other features of MGE if you don't want to. You can just use the Macro feature and ignore everything else if you don't want to change your game in any way.)