Thanks for the reply, however I can only make 3 posts on the first day and really didn't want to wait till tonight... is that against the rules?
Well the msfvenom at "usr/local/bin" seems normal (these scripts have no file type?) with a symbolic link to "/opt/metasploit/app", which in turn has another symbolic link to "opt/metasploit/run.sh". Using "ls -l msfvenom" on the two script locations give similar a output that looks like "lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Feb 20 16:12 msfvenom -> /opt/metasploit/app/msfvenom". The only different being the symbolic link location. Everything seems to be in working order, perhaps the script in "usr/local/bin" had a bad install? Both files are not corrupt. I haven't activated the community edition yet, is that the problem?