After trying every suggestion given by Waves... it became clear that I was beating a dead rat in vain. After having a typical user profile issue.... I logged on with another account to fix the issue. I decided to try central on that account and it worked without issue. I have no idea what's going on with my main computer account, that prevents central from working properly.
For those that complained in my earlier post about central... you may want to try another user account to see if that works out. I was able to make an offline installer as well as do an on-line install using another account. So far... it seems to be a solid solution for me!
