I added a few more mods to my list, all of which worked like a charm, with one interesting exception. Wintermute's Purity Mod crashed my game in exactly the same way. Purity is supposed to be a mod that contains only the story mode controls. I guess I'm fated to not have story mode. Must find larger goats to sacrifice to the Game Gods.

I am having the same problem as Baila. I use other hacks, and take them out for awesome mod. Hang at loading screen every time. I've tried all the "magic" tricks in this thread, nothing has worked. If I use the mod, it hangs. If I don't, and put in the others, all is well.

The other mods I'm using are:
Delphy's Body Slider Hack
Nointro
NoMosaic
CyberOps No Dead Fish Mod

Just out of curiousity, what operating system was it written for?  I am still using XP, and wondered if that could be the prob? I tend to ignore window upgrades until I absolutely have to switch. I hate guinea pig debugging..heh.