I'm not sure what you mean by "you are using an experimental build of pywallet and cloned the Github repo while jackjack was updating stuff."
Basically the pywallet is on alpha/beta version.
I tried moving the wallet.dat folder into ./bitcoin wallet folder and when I open bitcoin-qt -rescan it says:
"Warning: error reading wallet.dat! All keys read correctly, but transaction data or address book entries might be missing or incorrect."
That means the wallet.dat file is corrupted, but the most important part (the keys) of wallet is intact. You can try,
1. Export the keys to another wallet (such as Electrum) with
dumpwallet command
2. Fully sync Bitcoin-qt, where you need to download and verify 350GB+ of blockchain. If you plan to do it, make sure to update Bitcoin-qt to newest Bitcoin Core version, which offer better performance.
Thanks for your response, I don't know any of the public addresses associated with this wallet.dat. From my understanding you need atleast 1 to dumpwallet. If I download full node, will the addresses show up? How can I recover something off of this wallet.dat file?