Actually the question went unanswered. Purging doesn't phase it. In fact, I went in and deleted all the bridge caches manually. Nothing changed.

What's odd is that it reads maybe 50% of them. On the old machine it reads them all.

I changed the illustrator options to read the wmf instead of windows paint and the only difference is I don't get the paint icon, I get the illustrator icon.

This is vista 32 bit, BTW. The old machine is xp pro.

Interestingly, I've been playing with this for two weeks now and didn't register the program yet. But it says I still have 30 to register. And I don't want to disable it on the old machine until I get this one going. Looks like I may have two suite's for the price of one. Even though this one half works.