Further update, the logging shows "license fail" followed by 4 x ### Flash Lx ### entries.
The system time/date is wrong, it shows July 21 2017, but when I googled this is to be expected until a GPS unit is attached, when the date/time should be corrected.
When I installed the software this time I had nothing attached, and I since assumed that the GPS would work and update the date/time, and this would enable the serial to show as valid, but could it be that the software requires the gps to be attached during set up, so it can set the date and THEN validate the serial, and if that isnt the case everything is effectively disabled?
I will try the install again from scratch, this time with everything attached.
The odd thing is that even if the date were 21st July, my license would/should have been valid anyway!