All,
Not having a problem anymore just reporting some findings. I have a dev environment that has a database prefix of dev_. When trying to upgrade the ELIS Program plugin to 2.8.5.2 I got an error about the mdl_course table not existing. Looking at the upgrade.php in elisprogram > db folder it appears that mdl_course is hardcoded on line 71. I changed it to be {course} and the upgrade went through. If anyone from RL is watching these forums just thought I would let you know.
Scott