Quote from: rhader on December 03, 2017, 11:25:53 PM

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).

Quote from: rhader on December 03, 2017, 11:25:53 PM

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.

Quote from: rhader on December 03, 2017, 11:25:53 PM

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.