I'm looking for mods that are helpful, but make the game better, but not like, silly. Stuff that just makes it better in a general sense, takes away some annoying Vanilla things, and imrpoves it. Any suggestions?

I suggest you take a look at Nexus. Peruse the top 100, browse categories and refine the search by download numbers and endorsemants.

there's also a recommended mods list somewhere here. and get the community patch from the nexus at least.

this one?

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1149838-recommended-mods-list-wip/page__hl__recommended

http://fallout.gamesas.com/eng/links/privacyredirect.php?site=http://www.ladymoiraine.com/forum/index.php?topic=1073.0

At the risk of sounding somewhat self-serving, http://www.youtube.com/user/TheTuninator?feature=mhum#p/c/9994B116281F0B93 that features 4-5 mods in an episode every week; they range from the purely cosmetic to new items, armors and so forth. You might be interested in checking it out if you're looking for mods, it's on its 13th episode so there's plenty of stuff to check out, and it gives a nice visual reference that a lot of mods lack on their Nexus pages.

Take a look at The Collector. (link in my sig) Its a quest mod that I hope you can enjoy.