Just a quick couple of questions - Has there ever been a case where NEI doesn't have weather, time and Creative + / Adventure mode functionality when downloaded? If so, what's been the usual fix for it?
See, I have NEI 1.0.5.120 (yes, I'm on 1.7.10, but that whole project is dead so I'm looking for answers here) and I basically got half a mod. I'll bring over the relevant logs for anyone who wants to take a look, and again I'm sorry that I'm asking for help on a "Dead Version," but I feel like I shouldn't be locked out of playing a version of MC that I've been wanting to play just because of config issues. Which I'm actually pretty confident it is...I just don't know what the proper configs are.
NEI client config copy.txt
latest.log
latest.log.6_16_20_1249am.txt
launcher_log.txt
minetweaker.log
options.txt
updateLog.txt

I've found a kludge for this (not a fix, but it works)
I restored NEI's functionality by removing the suite of Tinkers' Construct related mods i had, including the root mod Tinkers' Construct. That fixed it. I'm gonna try to insert them one by one once I've installed all the other mods i wanted to see where it went wrong. honestly, a lot of the mods dependent on Tinkers' Construct were a little rough, so it's probably a conflict between one of the side mods and NEI.