so it couldn't be the platform? upgrading the client or trying it on another comp wouldn't work?
The platform doesn't matter. The Armory version might make a difference, but none of the wallet code as been changed in any of the latest versions.
the thing they are clearly marked .dat files for wallets for armory..
Armory doesn't use .dat files. If you are seeing .dat files that are supposedly for armory, those aren't Armory files.
if anyone can please help we can sign some agreement saying ill a % of the wallet. They don't seem all the way corrupted can someone please help.
How would you know they aren't corrupted? Do you happen to know the Armory binary file format? Armory uses a binary file format that you wouldn't know whether it was corrupted unless you examine it byte by byte.
Have you tried the Armory wallet recovery tool? It's in the software itself.
That's for wallet.dat files which are for Bitcoin Core only, not Armory.