Hi I was going to start editing the clothing packages so that the Skyblivion NPC's mod had them clothed. Also I was going to fix the skin texture issues.
BUT the ck crashes everytime i get to 52% of the oblivion_sk esm
is there something special im supposed to do to get the oblivion working in the ck?

Try loading the CK with just
Try loading the CK with just Skyrim master, and then load up Skyblivion. Skyblivion is quite a big file, so can take quite a bit to load up, it can sometimes take up to 5 to 10 minutes to load up in CK for me.