did you repacked the files or did you also tried it without repacking (renaming/removing/deleting the spore_game.package)?
i tried to delete the spore_game.package and just leave the spore_game folder but Spore wouldn't load that way. So I had to repack it.
And these have to be entered into the cheat console for the game to retain them?
No, I had to extract the spore_game.package file, as geos instructed at the bottom of the first page of posts.