Ok, so I was playing through as an Argonian and I found an ebony helmet and was like, "This helmet looks epic!" But Then I put it on and found out that my face/nose/snout was aparently crushed down to the size of the helmet's face plate. This could have been fixed easily by just making a modified model of the helmet. I know this will probably be fixed via mods, but it would have been nice to have it in the vanilla release for those of us with consoles rather than a pc.

weird things happen to j'zargo when i try and put a hood on him as well. seems to be a problem with the 'beast' races.

Yep, beast races simply don't have alternative versions of helmets. Though it would be more realistic to have to buy/find/smith a different helmet because taking the helmet off of a nord, and equipping it just to see it suddenly has a hole or is muzzle shaped would be totally silly, and I don't think everyone would like Morrowind's solution where beast races simply couldn't wear boots and closed helmets.