Quoting ShadowMastiff2468:

"Go into your mod folder..then jump back one step and go into your SETTINGS file and change the SHOWERRORS FALE into ShowErrors TRUE. then load game, itll freeze! Thats normal! Simply press the windows tab on your keyboard (to return to windows WITHOUT closing game) and then just click to immediately reopen game. It will only this time, youll have the errors plaguing you set before you!"

I cant say it any better so there you go.  Give that a try and that should at the very least tell you where the problem is ocurring.  Post back with what you find and I'm sure youll get some help.

Other people will probably tell you to do otherwise but,
First remove from your mods gameinfo folder all the files except the ones you have changed, you don't need the others in there. 
Second you don't need a manifest file unless you have added a file, as long as you are only editing then its not an issue.

My personal guess for what is causing your issue is that the reference data with the forge tools (as of yesterday atleast) still hadn't been updated to the latest version of entrenchment, meaning that by doing my first suggestion you should probably fix your problem, unless something in your files IS causing the issue, in which case you just start with an empty gameinfo folder and add files one by one until it stops working and you will have your culprit 

He he he! I'm getting quoted left and right *feels proud* LOL

How about doffing me with Karma...I seem to have lagged a lot behind Annatar LOL

You're modding Entrenchment the hard way as well.

With the new Manifest system you don't need to copy all the reference data.  All you need to copy are the files that you've actually modified.  If they are different filenames (IE, all new entities and not just changes to the stock files) then you'll have to add them to the entity.manifest as well.

The latest entity.manifest can be found in your game's install directory in the root of the Entrenchment subfolder.  It's virtually the same as 1.01 only they removed a couple redundant entries and it's 2 entities shorter now.  The file is in TXT format so it's easy to work with.

So, as an example for a mod that modifies the Terran Home planet:

1) Create the xymod folder under /Mods Entrenchment v1.02

2)  Create a GameInfo folder under your /xymod folder

3)  Copy PlanetTerranHome.entity into the above GameInfo folder.  Make the changes you want to it.

4)  Copy entity.manifest from the Sins install/Entrenchment folder.  In this case you do not need to modify it.

That's it.  You're done.

And yes, I accept Kharma as thanks for making your mod 1,000 times smaller and easier to manage

-dolynick

Tossed me own karma at the helpful peeps here, thanks a bunch guys!

Anyway, got the problem solved finally. I had to end up foregoing the Forge Tools 3 reference files and simply converted the files I needed from the game files themselves and popped them into my mod folder, and voila, it worked. I had to end up using a 3rd party GUI program for the convertdata exe, since I couldn't get the blamed thing to work.

Long story short, it finally works, and thanks once again for all the help and suggestions! Maybe one of these days I'll make a full-fledged mod...it's been years since my work on The Sith War...