Thanks Lilaina, that ultimately worked on my pc. Author should REALLY add that into the installation part of his readme! I tried the exact same process on my wife's laptop and for some reason it would still launch to default/non SCS BG:EE... couldn't figure that out. Ended up copying my entire game folder over to her laptops, and she just used her saved game data.Noticed SCS removes some portraits for some reason, had to find a portrait mod to add them back. Wish I could figure that out. Now, off to find if there's any solution to the repeating command/banter issue i notice right away. The characters say the same thing over and over sequentially, whereas before it was pretty random. ugh.
You said the game will be a bit hard for me eh? I guess i'm up for the challenge then, as I didn't really know what components I 'shouldn't' have included...