Anora's head missing with IA mod?

[Nerdwolf9000]

I'm using the Improved Atmosphere mod and am around 50 hours into my game. just got to the part where you have to save Anora from the Arl (spoilers). It all worked fine and dandy till I actually killed the mages and got Anora out of the room (massive spoilers). Long story short, Anora got no head. So i found a solution on the forums where you edit Anora's character file with the toolset, so I download the toolset, follow to instructions to edit Anora's UTC file, aaaand the game now crashes when I try to load my game. (not a CTD, just a plain freeze with music still playing and everything). Tried changing the file back, limiting the game to 1 GPU, uninstalling and reinstalling, verifying game files, lowering graphics, etc.. I'm at a loss for what to do, anyone get a similar problem? I figure it might have to do with the toolset since Anora's missing head didn't specifically crash the game (and I seriously doubt that editing one head file would cause the game to not load). But I'm open to any cause at this point, any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated!