Okay... I received Platinum as a gift, and after seeing all the CCC hubbub I opted to simply redeem it and manually install everything. The only glitches thus far was that the Boz and IR installs downloaded with no extension, so I simply added a ".exe" to them and they installed fine (they are installation files).
As I watched DimPro doing its thing, I was concerned that it had undone what I had done, so immediately checked the C drive and no multisamples were loaded. I then checked what I had done with X3 and the registry was unaltered. For those interested, I had physically moved the multisamples to a HDD and changed the registry pointer accordingly.
Registry key altered -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\dp
Only parameter changed (pointing to where I move the Multisamples) -
"Multisamples Folder"="F:\\Cakewalk Content\\Dimension Pro"
So far, CCC has been left completely uninstalled. I may leave it this way until it matures, but Platinum does not warn me of "demo mode" and so far I have seen nothing awry.
Edit: I spoke too soon... the second launch of Platinum says it is in Demo mode, lol