Replaced all values with 1?
Make sure you didn't accidentally change the turn requirements. Otherwise all reforms are triggered on turn one, so you wouldn't see any of them happen. Also, even if you change the imperium values to one you will still need to wait the requisite number of turns.
The purple tech doesn't enable reforms, it just enables some troops to be upgraded to new versions when the reform hits.
I made a submod that does this exact thing.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ium&highlight=
If you want, see if this works for you. It should make the reforms trigger based on turn number alone.