Hi @surfsup74
It is possible that your theme is including the ACF plugin files, and that the included version of ACF is old.
In recent versions of the ACF plugin, there is logic to detect an already included ACF, and to then not include any files.
If the theme version of ACF is old, this would explain why the plugin version does not detect this correctly and re-include itself.
Can you find out what version of ACF your theme uses?
Thanks
E