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No problem! It is sad to admit that meterpreter's getsystem works for me 90% of the time, so I decided I need to beef up my privesc skills on Windows boxes for that other 10% of the time.
I hope it is helpful for others. Having all of this in one spot has helped me for sure.
I've got a post with some linux privesc exploits, but I'm going to be making a similar post to this in the near future.