Time to finally end this on a happy note.
After much protestation, threats, insults and the occasional slap on the back of the head to the computer, she’s finally working for me! 🙂 Not exactly sure what exactly did it… maybe it was the accumulation of things. I cleaned out drivers, re-installed them, did some general window’s updating and did a clean install of FLE.
Low and behold… she works! Much to the benefit of my sanity. So thanks everyone as always for the advice and general direction pointing. 🙂