Hi, Joe.
Thanks for detailed description of you issue.
Actually situation that you have described is expected behavior:
You set up range (fromDate - toDate) to 1 week. Then you configured recurring preferences, but important note here that all selected options (like, every 4th week on Friday in your case) would apply to date range that was set in previous step.
So please try your previous recurring configuration with new end date that exceed 4 months from current time, and I think you'll be ok.
Regards,
Stepan Husak