4.7.4 MSVC2010 after config/build GUI application can't find 'stddef.h'

[budda]

The Examples and demos in my Qt/4.7.4/ work and compile just fine.
When I try to make a new Qt GUI application and build and run it. I get C1083: Cannot open include file 'stddef.h': No such file or directory

Which is really upsetting because I DO have C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin in my Environment Path
as well as C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include in my INCLUDE path
and C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\lib in my LIB path
and then I put %LIB% and %INCLUDE% into my Path

The configure build was to get phonon and phonon-backend working, which I successfully did before, but I had the Express Version of 2010 (which allows a debug build only and not a release), so as a student I went and got Visual Studio 2010 Professional and my builds are having some serious problems. I wouldn't post on here but, I've done the configure and jom and/or nmake so many times, I can't really waste any more days doing this....

Before configure I did run the VCVARS32.bat and I did the entire install as per say http://thomasstockx.blogspot.com/201...udio-2010.html and http:www.holoborodko.com/pavel/2011/02/01/how-to-compile-qt-4-7-with-visual-studio-2010/

not sure if this is because of something with the VC++ compiler, my environment variables, my toolchain, etc.....

any help would be awesome... I've never had this much trouble building before....

I should also mention:
1. I HAVE to use MSVC2010 for the phonon to work, so please don't suggest I just use MingW.
(I have working 4.6.4 w/ MingW that I use quite heavily. and 4.8.2 w/ MingW on another VirtualBox virtual machine)
2. This is a Windows7 32bit build.
(it's actually a VirtualBox Win7 32bit virtual machine with a Win7 64bit Host, so I can easily port it from computer to computer)
3. I HAVE read C GUI Programming with Qt4 1st and 2nd Edition, The Book of Qt4 The Art of Building Qt Applications, Foundations of Qt Development, and Prentice Hall Advanced Qt Programming, so PLEASE don't suggest any of these book titles to me!!!!!