Thank you for your help Umberto, I really appreciate it.
Besides the usual in the add-ons menu e.g. pmdg, fsuipc, I have:
Addon Manager
Couatl settings
Couatl live update
I opened the addon manager inside the sim and clicked on some of the airports I have like KMEM, KLAS, KLAX and the addon manager displayed the message "product installed and active". I'm at a loss, I tripple checked the path in my scenery.cfg and it corresponds with the directory structure of FSDreamteam installed products. I also verified that the new path in the exe.xml reflects the new path.
[edit] Umberto, I just realized when opening the addon manager inside the sim, the right side which has all the tweaking options is greyed out. I can read it, but I can't change any values?!
I attached both dll.xml and exe.xml, as well as my scenery.cfg just in case.
Cheers,
Pete