Thanks everyone, I'm a bit of a grouchy old fart when it comes to anybody changing my world! I literally spend more time in PRV that I do earning a living!
Sonars PVR was 100% why I just could not think of switching DAW's.
So you can see the why of my reaction at first, It's like someone turned out the lights in my workroom! After a few hours I kind of like the Mercury colors too! It translates over to the console view nicely. so all is good.
We all remember the reaction to X series when it came out.
I was one of the few who remained positive after November. So if anybody should be happy it's me.
PS- Yes the Air issue is because Air uses a none standard install and all the dll files end up an a hidden place.
I copied them over to my Stienberg VST folder where I keep all 3rd party stuff. Everything working fine.