Well it seems it would have worked, but the same error occurred. I tried changing it to VMX.VPX_JOB_LOG which destroyed the jobs list/service. Thank goodness for snapshots.
Thank you very much @homerzzz for your time and effort! Becoming a DBAdmin overnight was not in my plans(or pay-scale). Not certain i want to continue hacking at this.
Apologies to @esnmb for hijacking his thread.