I am quite infuriated by this. 

When I originally installed PP2012 on my new machine, I had unchecked 32 bit content.  Thinking this was the problem and that it might contain the information I need, I uninstalled and reinstalled PP2012 with this checked.

 I didn't change any install paths, but my next step will be to install onto a separate drive...

PP2012 still doesn't work on my new machine after installing several C++ runtimes and reinstalling.  I'm finding Windows 8 very frustrating.

 

Thanks for the tips...