Android Gradle Problem

I know that there are 100 questions / answers in this thread, but none of them seem to give me an answer. I know that some (if not all) of my problems are related to my lack of understanding of gradle as a whole. BUT, I hope for help.

I have my project that works fine on my desktop. I am going this week and wanted to work on this on my laptop. I have all the files and they have the same version of Android Studio on both machines. When I opened my project, I kept getting all kinds of gradle errors. I think that at this moment I went for some wild geese.

So, I decided to step back and just create a new empty project in Studio. It ALSO has all kinds of gradle issues. I tried to remove Android Studio and re-insatlling, and there are still no dice even getting the base project, so as not to give gradle errors.

I get

11:12:27 PM gradle Failed to update MyApplication project: Fatal exception occurred. The program will be closed. : gradle settings

Like a mistake.

Below are two of my gradle files.

Top-level file (which was empty in my actual project, but it has something in it by default)

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.7.+'
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}

Next build file

apply plugin: 'android'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 19
    buildToolsVersion "19.0.1"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 7
        targetSdkVersion 19
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            runProguard false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:+'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.0'
}

I am using Android Studio 0.4.2

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