Solved. For those having the same issue, the problem was that I needed to complete a live update since I did these ccp files with a version of CCP that had been updated since the version in my .exe. Note that I suspected this, but I was fooled by the fact that when I tried to update live from internet (in communications tab), it told me it would do that if I restarted the program but it actually never did (I assumed it had). Turns out, I needed to run the program as administrator in order to have it properly update (and when it properly updates, it gives you a progress report starting as soon as you close the program and takes a while to update).