if you need more macro dumps or there's a way to debug this (log more verbosely, get some other info) please let me know.
include environment variables in system vars was on; I'm disabling this to see if I get the same results.
Uh, now I know what this checkbox does

I need the env vars on, since that's what XDK and friends are.
When I turn them off, the project can't build. When I re-enable them, the variables I am missing in the child project are also missing in the parent. That's kinda spooky. Please advise.
I am going to try re-installing.