Thanks again Vearroyo! A Red Cent is yours for that info! It was just that one little detail (File>idc file) that I was missing. A small detail, but one that, at least for me, would have been nearly impossible to find. Generating the .xref files works now (except, when I ran DumpXref.idc the first time, I got an error that fl_US was not defined. Commenting out the line caused the program to go ahead and run). this may cause issues down the road though.
After running IDA on both .exe's, and generating the two xref files, I was ready to actually run Patchday.......
A window popped up and told me that "To run this application,you must first install one of the following versions of the .Net Framework: Ver 2.0.50727"
OK, I Google for that, find it, download the .zip, open the zip......stupid program won't install itself. Keeps "Encountering a problem and needs to close." Sigh...guess running this Patchday is going to be alot harder than I thought....gonna keep trying though.