seems RESOLVED. 

Thanks everybody.

not sure exactly what the problem was, something between cms and carrara.

Reinstalling DS4.62.118 and CMS via the ‘installer’ was giving me error messages. like scripts, utilities, ignore/retry.
so i uninstalled DS and CMS with the ‘uninstaller’ (separate uninstallers, yet one installer).
rebooted.
manually deleted the cms and daz executables folders.
Installed to custom destination path, E:DS  for the cms E:QS

oddly enough, didn’t touch the carrara install at all.
oddly enough, didn’t have to touch ‘MyLibrary’ folder of content,
but, Aiko 5 loads up now.

had to reinstall the couple of ds plug-ins.  but anything for my dear sweet Aiko 5

rubs hands together like macbeth

next, to learn how to undock the content browse tab to left monitor and close up the sequencer out of the way.

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