Did you try doing the other steps without taking the stuff off? I'm not sure if that's a necessary step. I went back into my guy and saw the same stuff you did, no equipment in the boxes but I decided that I've tested my luck enough today and I was happy to get my guys rating back and progress so I stopped there and turned it off. Hopefully the champs store restores itself at a later time. To me that's a server issue and not a corrupted file one. I'm thankful to find out it wasn't a corrupted file. At least I think. Good luck man.