lol, ok I figured it out here.
When I downloaded Visual Studio I got Visual Studio 2010
EXPRESS, which did not have anything in C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VC/ besides I believe a single dll file within a folder. So I went and got a copy of 2010
professional (which I now have 30 days on atm before needing to register hehe) at first it didn't work because I didn't uninstall express before installing professional, so some things were different versions than others. (doh
)
So I uninstalled express and professional, restarted, installed professional again and everything in cmake worked fine.
Thanks again for the suggestions and thanks KLS
