So far, all LEDs are good...tried programming with the guide, and afterwards, appears my 2nd row is dead...going to take another stab at it after dinner. All switches and soldering is good, so I know that isn't the problem and all other rows appear to be fine.
So, after about 4 hours, everything seems to be dead on the 2nd row...rows 1,2, and 4 all register normally and function 2 works completely fine (bottom row), but I'm completely unable to get fn1 (Caps Lock) to register, also tried flashing original layout in the guide to no avail.
For reference, here was the default layer I was trying to flash:
["Esc","Q","W","E","R","T","Y","U","I","O","P","Backspace"],
[{w:1.25},"Fn1","A","S","D","F","G","H","J","K","L",{w:1.75},"Return"],
[{w:1.75},"lshift","Z","X","C","V","B","N","M","<\n,",{w:1.25},">\n.","?\n/"],
[{w:1.25},"lCtrl","menu",{w:1.25},"alt",{w:2.25},"fn2",{w:2.75},"Space",{w:1.25},"fn3","lgui",{w:1.25},"rctrl"]
Currently, the keys that aren't working are circled: