No worries about the ad; please send the scroll of "Bind Succubus" to the usual address. I am looking forward to making business again with you in the future.
I didn't get much of a chance to try your mod yet; I heard about it at the Net4War forums a couple of days ago, and have a hard enough time with the AIs for now.
(Though most of my problems are with certain nations, where I cannot expand quickly with Independents 9)
Speaking of which, what kind of settings can be used to help the AI? Wouldn't powerful Independents hinder the AI more than the player? In my Arcoscephale SP game (Indies 9), I have about three times as many provinces as the biggest AI player, and I have lost a few battles due to my silliness. Do hard and very hard research settings help the AI, or cripple it?