318 Internal Vacuum Leak?

3) a faulty warm up program/ECU stuck in open loop/AIS not coming down.

IMO, to set the base settings, one needs to defeat both the Closed-loop system, and the Automatic Idle-Speed motor; which means taking the 02s off line. As long as the ECU knows about the issue, it's just gonna keep adjusting the AFR to get to whatever it has been programmed to do.
This is exactly what I needed! I read this a few times and got a weird idea to do a reset from the beginning. Turns out it must have been a bad initial tune where the computer learned some bad habits and stuck with them since I didn't turn off timing control on first startup but only later on. I ended up turning off closed loop on the handheld, reloaded the initial wizard and started it up. Adjusted the idle screws a little bit and got it around 750 with the IAC around 2-3%. Turned closed loop back on, went through the different gears and revved a little and it always went back to where it should be. Thank you so much for your suggestions, I would've never thought about this even being a possibility!