Your problem intrigued me and I had a look at the mod including peeking into the source code. For sure it won't install on 2.0 but it appears to me that on the face of it, it seems that it would be easy to modify for 2.0. It's such a shame that many authors of the earlier mods (pre-2.0) have become jaded or are just waiting until 2.0 stable is released, because I see little that is keeping this modification and probably many others from becoming compatible with 2.0.
As a mod author I feel little interest in messing with the works of other mod authors because I would get a bad reputation quickly if I started modding other authors' works and releasing them myself. Just to be clear, that would be nothing I would do.
Would somebody post a URL to a site that has the mod installed, one that can be accessed by guests? I'd like to see what the mod looks like when installed.
I suppose it's not out of the question for me to update the mod for 2.0 and then send the modifications to the author for his release...