Figured it out;
My pathing was correct in the first place the issue was the game kept de selecting the mod upon boot-up constantly. Just had to get a bit of luck for it to work
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That just sounds weird, the mod system should never be luck based and the selection of the mod upon boot-up has no impact on the game functionality. It's just for appearances, though it probably means that there was some problems with either the mod system or the file system.
As long as you got it to work, I suppose that's fine.