Yet another noob to the ranks

[Chilton]

Your going to have to go and set you folder options to show extensions so you can delete the .txt and actually make your files .hps and .cfg. Right now their called Story.hps.txt and so forth which probably isn't helping.

I'm a n00b too to this whole modding scene so I've also ran into my share of issues.

That could be the case, you may as well see
Also, it could also be an issue with organisation
EDIT:
Wow im blind
Put all your maps into a folder simply called maps
then add
MapsFolder = "maps/"
To your Custom Story cfg