whewww.........finally and much thanks to you Reverend -- and appropriately on our American counterparts' Thanksgiving too -- but the change-all advice worked well enough for me to eventually get the darn thing loaded. Mind you it took some fancy searching/extracting/loading of necessary files/drivers to get it that way but ...it's on and that's what it is all about for now.....hmmmm maybe I should wait on that update for just a day or two....
again thank you to all who took the time to help out and especially to the Rev.