Hi Vax, the resolution was to change to a newer platform (in my case a Xeon processor based system). It seems that a required processor level function was necessary for resolve to run, that was SSE 4,2 support (at the machine level) my other machine supported SSE something but through a ton of research and a support call to BMD found out that this was what I needed to have to use the product.
Hope that helps, I had hoped the old girl would do the job, but as someone once said “The only constant in Technology is change”. So my new machine is almost as old, but is a HP Z400 Workstation. Those can be bought second hand for under $200 USD.