Basically I am using a child theme as the default theme every time a new blog is created. In the wp-config.php file – I was calling
define('WP_DEFAULT_THEME', 'confit-childtheme');
define( 'TEMPLATEPATH', '/public_html/wp-content/themes/confit');
I read that when you are using a child theme as the default install theme, you have to reference the parent theme folder. This was the error.
The error I received while debugging was
Constant TEMPLATEPATH already defined in /Volumes/Home/Websites/wp-includes/default-constants.php
So I removed the 2nd line, and the child theme displays correctly while also being the default theme upon new blog installs.
Thank you brasofilo