apparently making this post helped me answer my own question..installed oracle client 64 bit as well and all is good

ok, so this will sound super stupid, but the answer was to click folder settings (thank you lowell)....I was actually clicking on the uploaded report folder and giving permissions there...i...

I have turned off UAC on the client, but have not granted access to the root folder...would you be talking about the path such as c:\program files\microsoft sql server\ msrs12.reports...