Nice one Nick!

Whenever Xkbd would take a dump on me before, my only option was to reboot the tablet since killall xkbd didn't do a thing.

That took some serious courage to run those commands as root. You're a wild one!

Okay, here's the same keyboard layouts with the fixed coding.
Keyboards.zip

Only use them if you're 100% sure Xkbd is working correctly.

There's no longer a Caps Lock button, now it's just a shift button instead.

The Notes file has the command lines on how to launch each of them.

The "Side" keyboard is for portrait mode.

Linux dude, any ideas yet on what exactly is occurring by running those two commands together?

Cheers!