@ You are awesome good sir. That worked and I’m now happily able to update my mod! Thanks a ton!
So it seems that the uploader built in to the Dev Kit just over-rides any changes made to the VDF and mod.db (mod.db was fine in my case). Good to know.
Dev’s: I think you guys should make a sticky about this issue. Not all of us experienced it, but I still think it would save a bunch of people the headache myself and a few others have experienced.