just for the record, i made a patch with [hid] object for the first time just now, and there was no problem in making the object - but when i tried to open the help file all_about_hid ....pd just crashed.
i am using 0.38.4 RC5 on os X 10.3.9
do you need 10.4 to make it work or something??? i'm really gonna need [hid] soon when i start importing sensor data