I read that to but I guess it slipped my mine. How do I bypass the 9999 limit then?
Bypass?
If you want to use 9999 break, and you are using the menu overhaul, reinstall menu overhaul by itself and choose the option to include the 9999 patch in the menu overhaul installer.
If you do THAT, you will need to condense your mods folder by copy paste overwriting everything from the mods\DK\ folder to the mods\Bootleg\ folder and changing the modpath in bootloader back to Bootleg.
AFAIK that's the only way to get it right. I could be wrong but, yeah, pretty sure.