One of the reasons why I had the problem was that I was installing it on a stand alone computer, that at that time, was not connected to the web.  Folks that have internet connections may have no problems-that is the reason why I capitalized the word IF.

I'm just getting the handle on the eco-system and it is very powerful, you can make your own planets via editing the plants thereby creating your own.

You can even make your own planets, throw them way in the background, do a few more things with them so that the clouds appear in front (they have a great tut on that in the .pdf manual).  Manual is very comprehensive and detailed--they did an excellent job on it.  Jan