these steps don't make sense to me, specially the part on using the address decoder
you plugged in your
"raw base58" private key into
"Bitcoin Address Base58 Decoder" to get another form of private key?
what do you mean by
raw base58? because WIF is also base58
Its was 44 characters. Did not begin with a 5 or LK
if it was 44 characters then it would be a private key Base64
(MINI) and can be used directly on bitaddress.org
edit: PK Base64 != PK MINI