Josh,
Thanks for the tip. I wasn't crazy about uninstalling the drivers so I turned off one of the devices in the list (POD XT) and it still popped up the MIDI error upon opening but worked just fine otherwise.
The large size of the GUI is still a bit of a pain but workable. I had a similar issue with another standalone product and their devs told me I need to change my DPI settings. It worked but everything thing else was too small for my liking.