Some problems:

[seagle0128]

Some problems:

[seagle0128]

(set-face-foreground 'font-lock-comment-face "Purple")
(set-face-attribute 'font-lock-comment-face nil :bold t)
(set-face-background 'region "Dark blue")
(set-face-background 'mode-line "red") ;; << This line is just to test I wasn't going mad :D

You should add these codes in custom-post.el or in after-load-theme-hook.

Tried to turn on the dashboard per instructions - it never turns on.
(setq centaur-dashboard t) should work.

Current desktop was not loaded from a file. Overwrite this desktop file? (y or n)
Update the configurations and try again. It was addressed already.

[seagle0128]

Do you still have questions or issues? I'd like close it since there is no update recently.

[xircon]

Apologies, been moving house and it took forever to get connected to the internet.

Thank you!!