Re-reading through the steps below fixed my problem. Thanks.
I changed the file C:\LibreSource\LibreSource\ls-config-windows.properties
to:
kernel.indexation.data.dir=C:/LibreSource/work/index
libresource.distributedFilesystem=C:/LibreSource/work/files
(Using the forward slashes.)
Then I ran the config.bat located in the libresource install directory.
This fixed the issue with not loading the bootstrap file.
Thanks for your prompt attention to this issue.