Sweet!!! thank you. I had a quick blip there. I also have a mu-plugins directory and had to change that too. What a great trick! Thank you!!!
Reinstalling
I did as you mentioned, and it worked beautifully all plugins were uninstalled within plugins directory.
When I went back to rename my other mu plugins folder, that’s when I got the kiss of death again…so I guess it’s something in that folder. I’ll poke around.