it managed to get past the loading screens. but when i enter story, the whole thing crashes. not responding. damn....i renamed it ide.img and pasted it in the Objects Folder.
If the game crashes after the first loading screen, it's not because the ide.img was edited wrongly.
That happened to me a lot of times. When you replace jimmy "skeleton" (or body size) with a certain ped, the game just doesn't work for unknown reasons (at least for me).
The first times I played as Hal everything was normal. The next day it didn't work anymore.