PLEASE DON'T MOVE THIS INTO MY PREVIOUS BLOCKED POST. THAT HELPS NO ONE, AND I CAN'T GET ANY FEEDBACK.
Sorry about that, staff is being stubborn right now. I'm currently using an existing forge mod as a template. I downloaded the source, followed all the directions, did the "gradlew buildDecompWorkspace", "gradlew eclipse" and imported the folder into eclipse. Everything is showing up as it is should to be.
HOWEVER, when I hit run, I get the message: "The selection cannot be launched, and there are no recent launches".
I would like to point out that I got this to workout somehow about a month ago, by completely dumb luck, but since then I screwed the project up and now I need to restart and get it working.