So...I think I'm just going to to wipe and reinstall everything, starting with TSLRCM & M-478, then go with Duplisaber. I have a ton of add-ons and mods installed, but I'm not exactly sure where the breakdown is... most of the mods i have installed are skins and/or textures, but there are a couple of others in there and all my downloads are ridiculously disorganized.
Thanks for the feedback thus far peeps! :-)
The answer to my previous question is...no, it did not fix the baseitems.2da issue.
Still get white boxes instead of items on most things, including some descriptions being changed/gone.