The official name for this printer is Britney Spears, or Britney for short, because oops, She did it again.
I decided to start fresh as mentioned above. While I was at it, I did check the alignment of the filament and the gearing and it looks good. I re-printed the bandaid using Cura as the slicer of choice with Michael's settings and it came out almost perfect; even better than the Kisslicer one did. The first layer had a few issues, as you can see from the picture, but eventually worked itself out.

Feeling confident, I decided to give it a retraction test file to see the "stringing goodness" this machine likes to give me no matter what I seem to do and DISASTER strikes yet again. I didn't change a thing. Used same slicer, same settings as earlier and this happens:

You can see where it was slipping on the extruder at first almost 1/2 way up the print, then it "fixes" itself to give nice layers till the super stringing starts back up. I think this is a every-other-time printer. I get one good, then one bad with nothing changing at all.......