If all the tools that require the executable to be just so (the unofficial patches and I think MGE all need the executable to be just so and load into the memory with predetermined offsets so the Steam DRM wrapper on the exe messes them up) haven't been updated then the way I got round that issue (in 2009 Steam was less of a force for collecting older games so most people weren't getting it though a deal on there and having to deal with the DRM'd executables, so I kinda expected all the stuff to have 'Steam exe edition's by now, unless some of the mods are great but no longer maintained) was by *ahem* less than legal methods of acquiring the original discs (which have on them the original executable, which can be patched up to the version needed by this modding process).
I own the thing on Steam, somewhere I have at least the base game on CD (lost to one of the many house moves that saw some games gets boxed away and probably in lost space with my parents if not totally lost), so I don't think there's anything morally at issue with looking for an ISO download (even if you actually only need a 10MB exe - it might be worth looking for maybe someone uploading to a file sharing service just the executable if you have limited bandwidth for downloading a full ISO set).
Obviously, caveat emptor, downloading unknown executables from the internet, especially a bit which is all about not exactly legal trade in information, can easily turn your machine into a bot or spam central so be careful and scan anything before you even think about running it.
It seems from this bug report that after I was having my issues (which were MGE+Steam exe based, I think the other exe patcher/unofficial mod already had a Steam version by that point) there was an update to the Steam executable to bring it more in line with the original offsets and so it fixed MGE to work (I'm not sure if the blog is pointing to needing a non-Steam edition because of outdated warnings about it not working - when the blog was written it definitely didn't work with the Steam edition - or if the warning is still accurate). Like with a lot of Elder Scrolls modding (with all the minefield of conflicts and so on) it might be a case of run it and see. I would hope that you could get 99% of the stuff working (including MGE, as Distant Worlds is kinda the big daddy of 'mods that make Morrowind feel like it wasn't made a decade ago') with the Steam edition.
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