Oh man, I was typing up a reply for each point I attempted, how the meta file looked fine and everything...
Then on a whim, in frustration I removed all of the displayable value text manually in meta.lsx file such as the description, author, mod name, etc. Then, back in the editor, I simply typed it all back in how it was before, and it worked!
I'm not quite sure what the problem was before, since the xml formatting seemed correct and the info I put back into it was essentially the same, and I didn't think to make a copy of the previous data since I fully expected it to not work. But it did!
Thanks for the pointers and the help! Glad it's all working again.
