I changed it to release. Tried it, still makes debug. I saved it and closed. Went back in and it shows debug again. I closed it, opened it with notepad++ and changed it to release there. Went back into VS, still showed debug. Checked in notepad++ again, it said release. They have it hard coded to only make the debug version on the Not For Resale edition.
Also, I can not open projects from any network drives. They have to be on the local machine.