Okay, I just reinstall the toolkit, again. Version 2.6.0.0 gave me that same error as before, but for some reason this time 2.6.1.0 worked when run as admin (which is what I'd been doing). I'd tried that same process three times without success.
Weird. At least it is working now, but I do wish I know why it hadn't worked up until now
Thank you guys for all the help. Hopefully I can get this custom ready for beta testing now.