I was talking with a DBA friend and I think we figured it
out.
I was logged into the database using userX's credential. I
ran a simple SQL and it didn't find the table unless I prefixed it
using userX.
I looked at the security side of things for userX and the
user wasn't mapped to that database in question. I'm assuming that
this is the cause. In my case, I can't map the user due to the way
I imported the backup (I get an error while trying to map due to
the user already being in the database - or something like that).
My goal is to figure out how to import the DB properly
without creating the user in the database. Then, I could simply
create the login and map it to the database and in theory, I'd be
done - I think.