I've opened up the mods in Vim editor, saved them as mac format and as Unix format. Neither works. I'm really frustrated.
I've been playing this game for years now, and to think that something this stupid is preventing me from experiencing the rest of what it has to offer is aggravating.
But rants aside.
I'm going to uninstall the game, re-install it and then patch up to 3.23b. I'll let y'all know how it goes.