Hi again Elise,
Yes, the business profile and Transit are two different things and presence in one is inconsequential to the other (eg. you can have your planning data in Transit without verified business addresses for each of your stops).
I'd like to help you get started again but I think we'd clutter the group with all the discussions in this regard - maybe you can send the details directly to my email and I'll see how I can help -
bodo...@gmail.com.
Since you have some PREVIEW data, it means you uploaded something (GTFS zip file?) to the Transit Partner Dashboard. Could you send that file to me so that I can check if it's the right format and everything?
Also, does it say 403 forbidden both if you click on the "fetch date" link corresponding to the "preview" entry in the table and if you click the one which has some validation errors (the one from december last year)?
You can try sending me the file you uploaded to the Transit platform and the errors you can see in the latest validation report and I'll see if I can help you get those resolved and therefore get you ready to publish your data.
Thanks!