For anyone not being able to get the event to run on single player.. I was able to get it last night. Had to load a random online server just long enough for the background ark screen to change to the vday theme. Hope that helps for anyone who needs it.
Unfortunately still no glitch updates (no drops, wyverns, dienodochys eggs, beaver dams , fish and I'm sure theres more) on ragnarok or valguero.