I know this is a silly question (but you did say you were a newbie) - have you extracted awesomemod out of the zip file before putting it in the mods/packages folder?
Yes i'm not a newbie to zip files etc just this.. forum.
Sorry i am new and if this is in the wrong place. I have heard of awesomemod for a while and would really like to try it but I tried to download it from this forum but I get an error when trying to start up my game then. I do apologise if ive misssed something im new to all this 'pudding talk'. Heh