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Update: tried turning "Enable Advanced XML Sanitization" on again and this time it worked. Google seems to have accepted all the products from the feed. Weird since it was on before and didn't work.

What does Enable Advanced XML Sanitization do? Why was it able to work for all this time without it but all the sudden it needs it?
That removes things that prevent the creation of the xml file. Numinix recommends converting the database to UT8 which supposedly fixes most of that. Most folks don't want to spend the time doing that so I always just turn on the Sanitization which takes care of most problems on most websites.