Thank you for the replies. I've decided to do a complete re-install. Too many janky things were happening.
Does anybody have a user.cfg file in your main MSFS2024 install? I had a usercfg.opt but no user.cfg.
I'm just curious. I was on with MS support and they were walking me through a couple of things and it
seems my install was probably bugged out soooo......dang, here goes....