Sorry for the late reply... lots of training sessions.
From your replies and further digging, it looks like I only have two options: Uninstall and reinstall SAS or reconfigure the config file (not recommended unless you know what you are doing).
I did a lot of tests and checking on the config file and permissions to the folders. Everything looks fine... except results in the same error.
I won't go into the details, but uninstalling SAS isn't working and doing things like re-imaging my computer is not an option at the current time.
At least SAS EG works... being an "old school" SAS programmer, I'm not fond of it, but it runs.