Custom Race Body Mesh - Mermaid or Nenmer(Water People)

[wishnot4]

Hey all, I've created a body mesh for a Mermaid race, which I'm planning on calling Nenmer, since I think they would be one of the elven races.  My problem is, the mesh is weighted and rigged following the armor tutorial on the nexus wiki creating an armor for skyrim page.  I put it in game, and it looks like crap, the texture for some reason is this there but has this weird white tint to it.  And the character isn't really in the mesh.  It's almost like they are wearing a wooden suit that doesn't quiet move with them.  I've included the nif files and textures.  Hopefully someone can tell me what I've done wrong.

Nenmer.zip

[wishnot4]

Well, I got it functioning in game 90% now.  It moves like a body should.  I'm still having some texture issues(it's washed out, white in some places, and very shiny) and the custom skeleton I tweaked up isn't working quiet right in the legs/tail section.  Any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.