Sorry guys, I know I'm so needy right now.

I've found a major problem with my file and why it's not batch rendering. I googled it (since Maya Help isn't helping) and found this explanation:

"Exception during render: Error: Cannot find procedure "getStrokeUVFromPoly"
This error can occur when rendering with paint effects. When you write prerender/postrender scripts be sure to use maya commands and not function wrappers that the gui posts since a huge number of functions don't get loaded when rendering in batch mode.

For a quick fix, add the following before the call to the prerenderscripts main functions:

source "getStrokes"; "

Can someone tell me where I need to plug this "getStrokes" into?