Thank YOU wulfy, honestly you're the most patient developer I've dealt with so far, and as you say this experience has definitely teached me a lot of somethings, having you along for the ride certainly has helped my sanity from dwindling any lower 
Then again, to tell you the truth the search function only helped me so much in finding out that you had already answered this sort of question, as I just found out about the quote above from checking the replies to the OP, so maybe something like a README.md on the download site or a warning to check the replies on the OP would help discoverability if you're still able to edit that one (I honestly thought the replies were either praise from fellow users or reserved posts for thread managing).
In any case, I sure am glad that I can put to rest this latest adventure, and a donation is surely coming your way after payday 
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Thanks for everything, I guess i have my work cut out tomorrow.