Reading the thread, I feel as if I'm the only one who played more towards the thief role.
Nope, you're not. Although I went more for an archer/swordsman/enchanter thief. But it's ridicoulously easy in the beginning when you have an enchanted item that provides you with a bound bow. I used to get pretty high in enchantement, then make an item to boost my enchantement skill incredibly for a second or so, bought a few scrolls of summon golden saint, soultrap and bound bow, nicked all the great soulgems I could find, and went on a small camping trip to where noone would get hurt.
Summon golden saint, summon daedric bow, soultrap, shoot the darn thing before it strangles me, rinse, repeat. I could do that comfortably on level 5, so by the time I reached level 10 there were no great soulgems in all of morrowind, and I was basically a magic tank that could move very, very quietly...
Oh yeah, let's not forgett about Vivec-in-a-pocket. That was some convienience...