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Should I remove the bare from the volume pot and move it to the common along with the green?
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Absolutely NOT. The bare wire is NOT part of the switching scheme, it's just the ground/shield conductor for the pickup's baseplate and all metal parts. It should NEVER be switched in ANY scheme.
The neck's green lead and bare lead should NOT TOUCH ANYWHERE for this scheme to work correctly. AND, it seems to me that's what your problem is - the green lead has continuity with the bare lead.
If are certain you have the switch wired correctly, but the neck pup plays in all positions, then the logical assumption is that something is wrong with your neck pickup's leads.
TRY THIS: connect the green lead back to the 4-way's common lug as it should be, but disconnect the BARE lead from ground, and make sure that it doesn't accidentally touch anything. Now see if the neck pup still plays in all positions. My guess is that it will NOT, and the switching scheme will work correctly.
DO THE METER TEST as described in the above posts.
I couldn't find the thread where you have posted a pic of your work.
AS you seem to doubt the veracity of my drawing, here's the original Fender drawing for the 4-way scheme, see if you can use this to find an error in mine:
