Mcreator broken, none of my mods load, Re-installing did not fix

It all started when I deleted a player variable that was in use in my procedures.  I got a warning, but ignored. After that I deleted all the procedures that used that variable. So that itself should not have caused any issue.  But at first, the game would not load at all when I hit the play button.  I tried restarting the mod, and tried re-starting Mcreator. This did not fix it.

So tried a second mod. For some reason, when opening the mod, the program stalled while trying to set up the workspace... normally this takes a few seconds. (it is a very small mod). So I exited out of the build process and closed Mcreator

So next I tried to open a different mod. That worked. I was still able to load a different mod into the workspace.  But when I hit "play" a small rectangular screen would flash for a millisecond and then it would stop trying to run the game.  The gradle status just read idle again.

So now I'm thinking: It's not the mods, Its Mcreator itself!

So I redownload a fresh version of Mcreator (2024.3) which was the same version I was running and had build all my mods in.  I chose to clear all cache and history for a totally fresh install... bad choice?

I previously also had geckolib installed and it gave me a warning about needing to install this as well. So I was able to open the preferences screen from the launch screen and get that installed and enabled.  Great! Now I can finally run my mods.... NOPE.

None of the mods would run. All of them got this warning:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ISSrmsrYa920mM9GLKFV93fEU7q1eRR/view

So then I tried to start a NEW workspace. Surely that will work... NOPE again.

Same error.

Has anyone else managed to screwup their Mcreator as badly as me and if so, did you ever find a fix? I looked through and saw a few folks had done similar things and never found a resolution.