Thanks for the reply. Ive been trying for days to fix this. I still have no idea what to do. I am totally surprised how little there is in terms of dev support.
If you want help from the developers, this forum is not the right place. The place for that would be either the
github issues page or the
Bitcoin stackexchange (more Bitcoin Core developers are active there than here).
I am reformatting my storage drive and removed bitcoin core entirely. I am going to try to reinstall once more
Reinstalling will do nothing to help. The issue is not with your installation but more likely with the data in the datadir itself. That data is not removed or touched by any installation process, so reinstalling will not do anything to that. I suggest that you first backup your wallet then wipe everything in the datadir except the wallet file and let Bitcoin Core redownload the full blockchain.
The total lack of help is kind of stunning...
Your problem is extremely specific about an issue that few or no people have seen before. The only people who might be able to help you are the developers (of which I am one of) and even then some may not know because this issue pertains to a part of the codebase that few people actually have worked on.