Well, I spent a little over two hours today and got nowhere on the request system.
I've had to restore the request system several times in the past and always figured it out, but I think the issue this time is that not only am I dealing with the shutdown of the off-site server, but I'm also using a newly installed computer, and now a new server as well.
All three combined at once leave me totally confused, frustrated, and quite frankly sick of the whole mess