Thanks Zoonini!
I had posted on themeforest, but the developer said it should simply work when loaded into wordpress. They are willing to take a look at my configuration if I provide necessary credentials (ftp, phpmyadmin, website, etc) but this is not something I am looking to hand out; this is a dev server hosted inside our office and does not even have external access.
Would the database type (MyISAM vs InnoDB) play a role with this? I think I’m just grasping at straws here. I am comparing a working environment (designs workstation) and the server (future wordpress home) in an attempt to make these as comparable as possible.