okay dude I figured it out. I was playing on a server that didn't allow the viewmodel changes. I asked an admin about it and he said the server owner got rid of it. It was just an mge server so I can find another one to play on. It works fine in casual and comp. Thanks for putting up with my dumb bullshit.

Okay that makes sense. It still isn't working though. The vpk and cache files are going to custom as well. I've tried putting the files in the TF2 folder, tf folder, and custom yet it still doesnt work. Can you just tell me where to put the files since it just goes directly to custom?

The "Select TF2 Folder" is greyed out. The only thing I did before it worked and stopped working was download WinRar. I'm going to uninstall WinRar and re-download the file to see if it works.