I have the Bitcoin Core now fully DL'd it's just each time I am trying to put my wallet.dat into a folder or sub folder the Bitcoin Core removes the first character so I can never open the wallet.dat. Tried to do some Googling about the problem but nothing seem to came up
So Bitcoin Core is working normally until you replaced the wallet.dat.
Try to open the wallet.dat instead of replacing the current wallet.dat file.
To do that, create a copy of the wallet.dat and rename it into something else like "
old_wallet.dat", paste into 'wallets' folder, then use the UI's "File->Open Wallet" menu to open it.
If there's no 'wallets' folder, create one inside your bitcoin data directory.
Also, before doing so, clear the loaded wallets by deleting "
settings.json" file from Bitcoin's data directory.