I am having this problem as well. While creating an HD texture pack for tekkit, I was testing it and found it wouldn't load when I clicked on it's icon in the texture packs menu.
Yes I DID compress it to a zip, and after some tests it seems this only happens with HD texture packs.
My OS is also a Mac.
Is there some problem or do HD technic/tekkit texture packs simply do not work on Macs?
EDIT: I am using Tekkit 2.1.1
My Java version is 64 bit