I'll look into that line 23 file thing on the original file - would rather work with the original if I can save it. Although I'm not entirel sure what you mean by this as I've opened it in notepad and it's really short a few lines only - am I opening it wrong?
In the meantime, I ended up decompiling a test render so it takes me back a bit (fortunately not that far back) - but not as far back as a complete restart - now I have to figure out how much damage I've done to myself with the de-comped one - still might be easier to start from the begining.