Well, after all that… I rebuilt the app, went in and followed all the instructions to a T…It magically worked (Reading is hard some days 
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RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec ruby script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb
Step 10 to the XF tutorial needs to be updated to reflect with the above line!
Anyway, the final result was:
updating featured topic users
966 / 966 (100.0%)
updating featured topics in categories
53 / 53 (100.0%)
updating user topic reply counts
241 / 241 (100.0%)
resetting topic counters
966 / 966 (100.0%)
Done (00h 04min 55sec)
Thanks to everyone for the assistance 