i also looked into the options issue and in the ovpn file i just posted there was an option called scramble xorptrpos that was giving the issue
i removed it from the file and that error quit coming up. i am not sure if the scramble is necessary when i went to the open vpn manual as per the link you provided it looks like v2.4 did not have that option....or at least i could not find it anywhere and i scrolled and scrolled and scrolled! haha
thank you for all of the help! i am not that strong with stuff but i have done a lot of reading and am slowly catching on....i am almost there with getting a successful connection but just seem to keep running into an issue after fixing the previous