Your best bet is to look in the "finished modifications" forum at those hacks, figure out which ones you like and want to have, then follow the links and instalation instructions.
I'm fairly new at all of this too, but I've managed to successfully get a last poster and smily hack going, and I failed to get a mood hack going.
My siggy's too big for here. Dang it, grow bigger sigs people so I don't look so strange!
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