Oh what a glorious day.. I figured it out thanks to your sentence structure lol.
.. THAT'S what I wasn't doing! I had no clue how compiling worked and really was just taking guesses. I thought once you click "rebuild solution" that you could then start up your server and bam, you're all set! The KEY was then copying over the newly modified file (zones.exe in my case) to my server folder and wham, bam, thank you Trevius! Again, 1,000 thanks for your help!