Been there... read that... no T-shirt...

OK... mustered up some courage and tried an unmanaged install to my home machine.  Had a tough time to shoe-horn it in.  Uninstalled 7.61 first but then 8 rolled back on install.  Tried to reinstall 7.61 but it too rolled back.  Did all the usual cleaning out of the registry but still no-go.  Finally got it to go by manually creating the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symantec and giving myself full perms.

Need further testing...
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