Good news. You got it to throw that new Bad config... error. I spent some time tracking that error. Found that I had somehow partially started a second environment called notebook that was gumming up and confusing things. I must have drifted a bit more than I thought I was that first night at my desk and input some wonky stuff. The computer (and to be fair, mostly the user ie myself) were getting confused where notebook meant the environment and where it meant the jupyter. And it was only partially setup so there was some gumming up there. Anyway, so I grabbed a conda command sheet, and removed the bad extra environment via conda env remove --name notebook and then full uninstalled and reinstalled anaconda. Things are back to working properly. Thank you for helping to shift me onto the right path. I never would have gotten there if you hadn’t helped figure out it was an issue with the Bad config....
Gonna’ mark this as my solution so hopefully it can be closed. Thank you again for all your help.