Differences in QueryTables.add between VBS and Macro - vba

Question

I have a Macro that loads a flat file into the current sheet. It searches a subfolder for a .dat file of the same name as the active sheet and loads in the data. I want to transition this to a vbs script that will loop through all of the sheets in the workbook and import all the data. I cannot use a macro because when the workbook is open and I try to do this, excel runs out of memory. Below is the macro:
Sub LoadData()
Dim xStrPath As String
Dim theSheet As Worksheet
Dim xFile As String
Dim xCount As Long
Dim oneCell As Range
answer = MsgBox("Are you sure you want to reload data? This will remove all existing data.", vbYesNo + vbQuestion, "Warning!")
If answer = vbYes Then
Set theSheet = Application.ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet
theSheet.Rows(5 & ":" & theSheet.Rows.Count).Delete
xStrPath = Application.ActiveWorkbook.Path
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
xFile = xStrPath & "\Old_Data\" & theSheet.Name & ".dat"
With theSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:="TEXT;" _
& xStrPath & "\Old_Data\" & theSheet.Name & ".dat", Destination:=theSheet.Range("A5"))
.Name = "a" & xCount
.FieldNames = True
.RowNumbers = False
.FillAdjacentFormulas = False
.PreserveFormatting = True
.RefreshOnFileOpen = False
.RefreshStyle = xlInsertDeleteCells
.SavePassword = False
.SaveData = True
.AdjustColumnWidth = True
.RefreshPeriod = 0
.TextFilePromptOnRefresh = False
.TextFilePlatform = xlMSDOS
.TextFileStartRow = 1
.TextFileParseType = xlDelimited
.TextFileTextQualifier = xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote
.TextFileConsecutiveDelimiter = False
.TextFileTabDelimiter = False
.TextFileSemicolonDelimiter = False
.TextFileCommaDelimiter = False
.TextFileSpaceDelimiter = False
.TextFileOtherDelimiter = ","
.TextFileColumnDataTypes = Array(2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2)
.TextFileTrailingMinusNumbers = True
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
End With
For Each oneColumn In theSheet.UsedRange.Columns
With oneColumn
.ColumnWidth = 40
End With
Next oneColumn
Else
'do nothing
End If
End Sub
And below is the VBScript I tried to run:
Dim xStrPath
Dim theSheet
Dim xFile
Dim xCount
Dim oneCell
Dim theFile
Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set xStrPath = WshShell.CurrentDirectory
Set theFile = GetObject(xStrPath & "\Base_Tables_Template.xlsm")
For Each theSheet In theFile
'Set theSheet = Application.ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet
theSheet.Rows(5 & ":" & theSheet.Rows.Count).Delete
xFile = xStrPath & "\Old_Data\" & theSheet.Name & ".dat"
With theSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:="TEXT;" _ & xStrPath & "\Old_Data\" & theSheet.Name & ".dat", Destination:=theSheet.Range("A5"))
.Name = "a" & xCount
.FieldNames = True
.RowNumbers = False
.FillAdjacentFormulas = False
.PreserveFormatting = True
.RefreshOnFileOpen = False
.RefreshStyle = xlInsertDeleteCells
.SavePassword = False
.SaveData = True
.AdjustColumnWidth = True
.RefreshPeriod = 0
.TextFilePromptOnRefresh = False
.TextFilePlatform = xlMSDOS
.TextFileStartRow = 1
.TextFileParseType = xlDelimited
.TextFileTextQualifier = xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote
.TextFileConsecutiveDelimiter = False
.TextFileTabDelimiter = False
.TextFileSemicolonDelimiter = False
.TextFileCommaDelimiter = False
.TextFileSpaceDelimiter = False
.TextFileOtherDelimiter = ","
.TextFileColumnDataTypes = Array(2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2)
.TextFileTrailingMinusNumbers = True
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
End With
For Each oneColumn In theSheet.UsedRange.Columns
With oneColumn
.ColumnWidth = 40
End With
Next oneColumn
Next theSheet
The VBScript is giving me an expected ')' error on line 18 char 49:
This line is
With theSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:="TEXT;" _ & xStrPath & "\Old_Data\" & theSheet.Name & ".dat", Destination:=theSheet.Range("A5"))
This should be behaving the same as the macro. Why would the code expect a parenthesis when the macro executes just fine?