If it helps, after a reboot or playing a few rounds of BtS, the mod does the same thing.
It will get me to a loading screen after 4 minutes. In that time, my process manager is showing Civ4 taking about 50% of my computer's resources.
Then, when it gets to Init XML (uncashed), it's still taking ~118k of memory but the CPU usage is zero.
After about 10 minutes of this, I get the "Civilization 4 has stopped working" message.
I hope this helps.
If you need more information on my set up, just ask.
For the most part, I've had no trouble with using mods "as is." The only trouble I had was adjusting mods and usually it just didn't work but the game still played.