Thanks for the knowledge @godreborn I just figured I would ask glad everything's working properly again.
it could be any file in the package folder. that has things like head and tail.bin along with the work.bin. I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of all of those files is, but when I did a mai dump of some dlc I had bought, the tool removed the package folder entirely even before transferring the content to app/title id/dlc . what I mean is that the appcont folder still had the dlc in it, but the dlc was destroyed, so nonpdrm wouldn't work. I had to redownload the content with nps browser, because I don't want to sign in to psn. I might to activate my system after ridding myself of my banned account though, but not anymore beyond that.