LAST AND FINAL UPDATE (I HOPE):

Alright besides it being 40-50 something degrees out. I went ahead and took the car for a drive after installing the parts for the exhaust system, afcII, and datalogger. Car sounds extremely loud but NO exhaust leaks and its running like it was before the problems. I was going to go ahead and start tuning it but man its too cold out. I'll wait till it warms up a bit on another day. Tomorrow I'll be driving it to work and home... hopefully everything goes well.