Oh, ok, you were trying to activate the RT-1. @SpinkAkron disabled that engine with the 1.8 update because KSP introduced the Mite and Shrimp boosters which superseded the RT-1:
If you wanted to reintroduce that engine, you would want to change UKSsolidBoosterRT1.cfg from
@TechRequired = unresearchable
to
@TechRequired = start
This does bring up two questions, though. First, the change you described shouldn't have reintroduced the RT-1, so I'm curious how your change worked (I'll admit I'm still learning MM scripting, so it's entirely possible I'm missing some subtle logic in the change).
Second, do the Mite and Shrimp engines show up for you? They should be included in Stock for 1.8+, and you indicated you were working with 1.9.1. If they aren't in your tech tree, that indicates something else is going on.