I checked armbianEnv.txt and it says rockchip5, to triple check, I checked the site I bought it from, also says 5. So I believe I mislabeled the post as 5b, but it is a 5.

Search my threads with keyword "ili9341". Post a photo of your wiring, a schematic, and what did you try within armbian... in this thread.

This is similar to physical damage to the SD card

Those are standard kernel patches. Do you mean Armbian build system does not support multiple patches in a single file? If so, you can download each of the 14 patches individually and then apply them. Or you can try reformatting the combined patch file as a single patch.

I gave this a try but no success. The structure of original source code doesn't match the one for armbian. It would be great if you could make a patch as in this link