Animate.ids slots and recolouring BAMs Options

[pasco95]

With the free slots in animate.ids how do I assign an animation into one of the spare slots without it crashing the game; I copied all the animations from one creature and renamed them to the required animation name (to be specific I copied and renamed all the MMIN**.bams exept the mindflayer ones, just the minotaur ones, to MCYC**.bams and added the required line to animate.ids assigned IC_CYCLOP using shadowkeeper then opened my save and the game crashed, I also tried it with MHIS** or whatever the histichai (spelling??) one is and it crashes the game to) Basically I want to use a Minotaur animation that is a different colour than the standard one without overwriting the original, which leads me to my second question, is there an easy way to recolour BAMs or do I have to do it frame by frame pixel by pixel to make it look good? Can you apply an effect to a creature/character that changes their overall colour?
Cheers guys.