James, after re-reading my reply, I think I might have come across as angry, which for that, I am sorry (if that was the way you perceived it). I just wanted to make sure that this thread was not going to become a thread of jokes, since this is a serious (losely speaking) issue for me. I appreciate your interest in this matter and responding.
Andrey, yes I realize that it's a matter of how they compute the hardware ID (thats why I was asking about what specifically in hardware they base this value off of). You bring up a good point with the MAC addresses, I am wondering if the Virtual Machine's NIC is causing these issues (I also have a program called Hamachi, which is essentially a VPN of sorts that might be doing something that NI does not like). I have disabled the VM virtual NIC along with Hamachi's interface, but I might have to try completely unistalling these two services. At any rate, I find it weird that this is the first time I have ever encountered something like this and I have several license-based engineering programs (ie Matlab, Mathematica, Xilinx ISE).
Anyways, I looked up NI's technical support phone number last night, and I will be giving them a call later today. I will provide an update to this matter after the call (hopefully sharing the solution/problem).
Thanks for your help.
