No matter what i try i can't get steam to go into offline mode.

I recently upgraded my gaming rig and reinstalled Steam and Skyrim.

After the usual problems with a new gaming rig i think i finally have my hardware problems sorted out but not steam.

Let me explain.

When it first installed steam, then Skyrim from my DVD and then all the DLC's i own auto downloaded from Steam i was able to go into offline mode.

I must of uninstalled and reinstalled steam 20 plus times by now, over the past 4 days trying to get offline mod to work.

I have precisely follwed steam own FAQ here

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3160-AGCB-2555


Steam Offline Fix by Sagittarius22 on the nexus, which no longer works because steam no longer uses the winui.gcf file as i've been researching

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19347/

as i said the winui.gcf fix doesn't appear to work anymore so this walkthorugh doesn't help anymore http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=486912

i have looked all over these fourms and many other forums for a solution

this is my third day with no answer from steam tech support

I know all about how to delete steam, everything but the steam.exe and steamapps folder move it to a new location and have steam re-download to a new location.

under my games list in the steam client it says Skyrim is ready to play

everytime i verfiy the intergrity of game cache it says

"1 file failed to validate and will be reacquired" i have no idea the one file that keeps getting reaquired

I can run the verfiy the intergrity of game cache process again and again right after each other with or without closing steam and the same file is always reaquired

I've tried making Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini read only

i have tried installing Skyrim from my DVD copy, completely from steam no DVD,

I've tried acesssing the router, disabling unplugging the network cable (no wifi) at different times trying to force offline mode (steam used to allow access like this a while ago) nothing works

I've tried reinstalling steam, changing directories, deleting steam registry entry and reinstalling

Nothing works. Any ideas?

Please help me.

The only thing that DID work was configuring windows 8 firewall for allowing both public and private acess to steam and a new update occured but that didnt help the situation

I'm running windows 8 pro 64bit

the only thing i can think of doing is completely reinstalling the OS but thats a huge hassle and the only back up of my OS i have is steam already installed