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[Zombie Shakespeare]

I am also having this problem.

This is the structure of my folder: Custom Maps > testmap (containing custom_story_settings.cfg) > maps (containing testmap.map and testmap.hps).

The contents of custom_story_settings.cfg are:
<Main
Name="The Test Chamber"
Author="Anonymous"
ImgFile=""

StartMap="testmap.map"
StartPos=""
/>

From my hpl.log I have found what I believe are the relevant errors:
Game Running
--------------------------------------------------------
-------- Loading map 'menu_bg.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 2741 ms
Entities: 758 ms
Compilation: 1 ms
Total: 3557 ms
Meshes created: 26
Bodies created: 5
-------- Loading complete ---------
Setting profile: 'dev_user' Path: 'C:\Users\Kyle\Documents/Amnesia/Main/dev_user/'
ERROR: Unable to open config file 'maps/main/ch01/custom_story_settings.cfg'! Invalid filepointer returned!
Error creating custom story from path "maps/main/ch01" : could not find custom_story_settings.cfg file or it was invalid.
ERROR: Unable to open config file 'maps/main/ch02/custom_story_settings.cfg'! Invalid filepointer returned!
Error creating custom story from path "maps/main/ch02" : could not find custom_story_settings.cfg file or it was invalid.
ERROR: Unable to open config file 'maps/main/ch03/custom_story_settings.cfg'! Invalid filepointer returned!
Error creating custom story from path "maps/main/ch03" : could not find custom_story_settings.cfg file or it was invalid.
ERROR: Unable to open config file 'maps/main/MyMaps/custom_story_settings.cfg'! Invalid filepointer returned!
Error creating custom story from path "maps/main/MyMaps" : could not find custom_story_settings.cfg file or it was invalid.

I am fairly certain that whatever the problem is, it is my fault. I screwed around with the usersettings.cfg and mainsettings.cfg files in an attempt to follow the instructions from the wiki here: http://hpl2.frictionalgames.com/amnesia:devenvguide

I gave up on not being able to find some of the options required to be changed. If you think it might help, I can just reinstall the game and work from there.

Thank you for your time, and I apologize for the long post size.

EDIT: Progress! I repaired the settings files that I mangled, and now the string of errors is considerably smaller. I have updated that section of my post to show the new contents of the hpl.log.