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Well after playing with it for a while I got it to work.
 
The program was looking in the wrong folder which had a synonymous name and I'm not sure why it was there.
 
It was looking in E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Rocksmith2014 but the correct path is
E:\Program Files (x86)\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Rocksmith2014\
 
I'm not sure why that folder existed, but it was on both C and E drives and had dead end path \dlc and in the RS 2014 folders the d3d9*.dll was there.   And since it had rocksmith 2014 in the path I was erroneously directing the program there too manually.     I suspect steam made it since I recently (couple of months ago) moved some steam games to my hard disk from the SSD due to space.  So it might be a remnant file from before it was moved.
 
What I'm finding odd though is that when I pasted that path in it was from the valid one.
Perhaps that is where the bug or glitch is.
 
But when I set it to reset CFSM on exit it now immediately finds the RS folder and all songs so this problem such as it was is now solved.
 
 
I kept the logs from the last run before I fixed it if you are interested in perhaps improving the algo that verifies RS folder. It was being stubborn changing my path from E:\ to C:\ I think because it thought it had indeed found the correct installation, but maybe it needs to be more than finding the path and look for something IN the folder.
 
Link to folder with log and setupxml is here:
http://pc.cd/h6GrtalK

I got it sorted out.  What I did was run the rstoolkitupdater program and it updated the program.  When it did there must be bugs in that version.  I deleted the rstoolkit folder and replaced it with the version I downloaded in zip.
I had to re-do the template for the song but it worked after that.
 
Need to work on a few bits in the chart but it's coming along nicely for a first time try at charting.