oh my god after 8 hours of debugging and trying everything on every site, finding nobody has a concrete solution and same standard wordpress debugging, you are my saviour. I found my wp_user_roles but it had been modified by some plugin with only like 3 roles. copied and pasted your code above and problem solved. Wish I had found this earlier and hope people find it in the future. This should be stickied somewhere. Once again Thank you.
THE REAL SOLUTION TO: SORRY YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ACCESS THIS PAGE.
