Oh I know this should be easy, ha ha, but something's just not working here. Really, I have tried everything I can find, here, your guide, on Discord, etc., often multiple times, checking for any update or something, double checking files, where they point, if they're read/write, all that stuff. My connection's just at home, so unless Comcast is blocking it for some reason, there's nothing there either. I will check that list of files for CoH just to be sure.
I have deleted and reloaded before, but I can give that another go and do the regedit trick too and see.
And I haven't tried redownloading it from the magnet link. It doesn't seem like there should be any diff in the files, but I can guess I'll try it just to see.