Changed null date elements to 01jan1900 to fix bug that occurs when combining the data frames if there is a combination of POSIX and string values in the vector
Removed naming of the object prior to return function.  Prevented matching the meta and records fields in the makeDB script
Adjusted location of some of the code to front load the majority of the heavy lifting.  Also added additional objects that would be saved at the end of the script and set the number of cores higher to take better advantage of hyper/multithreading