Another round of good news!
I found the patch & upgraded to version 3.24. I then went back to my original old in-work mod, put it together in one big mod like the original, edited the extraneous ### symbols that I had in the comments (which Stavis recommended I remove in another post), and retested.
The whole-enchilada Name-Mod file size was 422kb before I tested it, but it did work.
I also changed the version # to 3.24 on the mod. Apparently, there doesn't seem to be a file-size restriction on mods with the new patch in place (as I'd previously thought).
The bad news is that I actually have more work than I'd originally thought. I've completely finished 4 NameTypes, but there are very big holes in most of the other NameTypes, and a few I haven't added any names at all yet ( some of the Female nameTypes ). So, I have a couple more months work at least; I'm trying to add a couple dozen new names every day or so. There's actually thousands of names, so it's more work than it seems.
I also needed to create a completely alphabetized text list on the side, so I'm actually adding every name twice. I had to create an alphabetized list because I realized I was inadvertently duplicating names, which was the whole purpose to begin with (avoid dups). Since there's so many names, it's actually fairly easy to dup them inadvertently.
By the way, now that I'm thinking about it, if there's somebody that has a good knowledge of alphebetizing: is the following snippet correct (ignore the numbers which are just references to nameType catogories) .. I'm not 100% on how spaces, hyphens, and non-letter (apostrophe) symbols get alphabetized, i.e.:
Jack 100
Jack 'O 100
Jack Frost 144
Jack o' Lantern 144
Jack-in-the-box 137
Jack-La-Lant 145
Jack-the-Ripper 140
Jacko 137
If you think there's something wrong with the order of the names in this alphabetized snippet, let me know. I put symbols (apostrophe in jack 'o in the second line) before letters, and hyphenated words after, but I'm not 100% sure of this.