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I plan for 4 sets of 10 reps per exercise.
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That might be too much. Your entire workout for a body part should be in the vicinity of 50-70 reps top for most people (unless you are using anabolic steroids which help you work out a lot more), or you have been training rigorously and diligently for many years (which gives you the conditioning required to withstand and recover from the physical effort.)
Consider that you are listing 4 main exercises per body part. (4 x 10 reps per exercise) * 4 exercise = 160 reps total for a body part. A better plan would be to do 1 or 2 exercises per body part instead of four, and bang the living crap out of it to 50-80 reps. Use the same selection of exercises for 4 weeks, then switch to another 1-2 exercises, and repeat.
Working out is not about mathematics where more is necessarily is better. Quality over quantity. That is why,
for most people, specially novices or coming from a long hiatus, doing so many exercises for a single body part on a given day for so many reps and sets leads to nowhere. If you really take a pair of exercises and work your ass off on them, you won't have juice left to do the others. If you do, then you are not working your ass off.
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You mention combining triceps and biceps, but how am I to keep this under 1.5-2 hrs?
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By reducing the amount of rest between sets and by alternating opposite muscles. For example, do one set of bench presses. Then, instead of resting, do one set of bicep curls. Then take 30 seconds of rest and repeat. People take a long time for their workouts because they take their sweet time between sets. Unless you are training for power lifting, that's a no-no. 1 minute top of rest between sets.
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Oh yeah as for the squats, I have just read articles which states that no matter how good your squat form you are still putting incredible pressure and force on your spine which it really cant handle.
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That's bullshit dude, like giant alligators living on New York's sewage system. If it were true that the spine can't take it, then how is it that you don't see spines snapping out of the living flesh off power lifters and olympic lifters.
Besides, if you do them wrong, then you affect the spine. If you do them right, the brunt is taken
at the hip. Same with dead lifts.
As I said before, read the training link on my sig.