My car was also made in 1999 but is a 1.0 - I'm not sure which mine has or if it is relevant so I can't help with that
I have replaced once with a nissan distributor from a scrapyard that lasted for 15,000 miles or so (5 years), and once with a brand new distributor from a non-OEM manufacturer that has lasted 8 months so far but I haven't done more than 1000 miles yet. The brand I got was Mikayo. No problems so far with it, but I noticed the cap and rotor were different to the official nissan one, so I'm not sure how I will replace the rotor when the time comes. It was around £130
edit: having checked wikipedia it seems that all of the nissan CG10DE/CG13DE/CGA3DE engines were made with multipoint fuel injectors from 1992-2002 and infact the E in DE stands for multipoint fuel injection.
