This is a continuation of this thread, http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1548366-fyi-to-potential-mod-users-tesvsnip-mods-on-the-nexus/ , which princess_stomper has allowed me to continue provided the discussion remains civil.

For the new folks around, (from github)

Which all sounds well and good but the tool was created before Skyrim's Creation Kit came out and the record structure was not completely understood. The result was mods that were able to corrupt saves. http://www.darkcreations.org/forums/topic/1799-skyrim-handling-compressed-records-do-not-use-tesvsnip/%C2%A0

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1548366-fyi-to-potential-mod-users-tesvsnip-mods-on-the-nexus/page-5#entry24618602

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1548366-fyi-to-potential-mod-users-tesvsnip-mods-on-the-nexus/page-7#entry24664910

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1548366-fyi-to-potential-mod-users-tesvsnip-mods-on-the-nexus/page-6#entry24620768