I think that might have done it. Were at 2.5hr's and counting since I restarted bitcoin core and no crash so far.

I misunderstood your instructions yes. This time I went to the bitcoin folder that had the config file in it and opened it in notepad and added salvagewallet=1 and saved. Then restarted core waited for it to sync and catch up then shut it down (which at this time did not give an error) then restarted. It took much longer to start this time but in the end, there have been no issues so far.

Thanks for your patience if anything changes I'll update. Once the transaction fee's become a bit more reasonable I will send along a thank you tip to your address.