Well, I found the registration problem, duh! During my various conversations with NI people I had been told that the "Signature" number for EWB is different for each computer you install on but it didn't register until I talked with the technicial in Canada. When I got the new Release Code EWB stopped warning me with the "5-days-left" message. The "National Instruments Domain Service" still doesn't work but I can live without it, being a single user, and that's something that is Vista caused. I fired up about four iterations of EWB and loaded each up with many instruments and components then ran them all at once and it worked great (it doesn't hurt to have 8 processors and 4 gig of memory, though). Thanks to all the people at NI for their help.