I was bored this weekend and did a whole new install w/ my fingers crossed. Disabled McAfee virus and firewall entirely, disabled the xbox overlay as well as having steam and geforce overlays still disabled, renamed the folder without modded, ran it as admin and with the extended timeout.
Still no good. I'm giving up, this mod shouldn't be this difficult plus all the additional crashes and problems everyone is having now. It's not worth the hassle.
Thank you so much for trying to get it running for me, though.