Are you putting the mods in the correct folder?

Should be auto created if the mod was enabled properly.

The mod is a folder that goes inside the specific game expansion folder.

http://soase.weebly.com/placing-mods.html

What version of what expansion are you trying to install what version of what mod?

kira,

ONLY entrenchment AND diplomacy use and have the enablemods.txt in the mods-expansion v#.## folder, and regarding the minidumping, IS the mod FOR vanilla sins, if the mod(s) are for entrenchment/diplomacy then that IS the cause of the minidumps as the modding structure changed RADICALLY with entrenchment and diplomacy continued with the same modding structure.

regarding the entrenchment question, it is able to be purchased from the stardock shop and downloaded through impulse, or you could go into a local computer games shop and ask for 'sins of a solar empire trinity' which has vanilla, entrenchment AND diplomacy, then you can update with impulse to the current versions.

harpo