Thanks Mahlon for the reply. Yea nothing I do seems to get this sorted out. I am pretty close to waiting on this new software for a couple weeks until I can get done with current project and get this sorted out. One of my clave PCs acts very strangely running VE in stand alone (CPU runs at 100% - lower right hand corner - with no instruments loaded.) VE looks great my maybe not ready for prime time on my systems. I'll keep tinkering as long as I can.
Rob