Need help in repairing lightsaber glitch

[WhiteSaber]

Hi, there is a mod I downloaded a long time ago and while I really like it, the standard lightsaber has an unfortunate glitch. once you deactivate it, then enter another area the blade is visible even though I haven't activated the weapon yet.

while one can ignore this unfortunate glitch by un-equipping the weapon, I recently ported this weapon over to kotor - and as we all know kotor has no secondary hand slot to "un-equip"

Does anyone know how to fix this? - I'm guessing it must have something to do with the shading? but I'm a novice at that so far. Any ideas?

Below is a screen shot of the problem - (lightsaber not "active" in shot - yet visible)

Also have uploaded problem file.

Thanks for the help!

w_lghtsbr_020.zip