Sorry, late getting back to this. I have read the afore mentioned posts and will check it out again when I get back to my DAW this evening. I did a complete uninstall of platinum and will reinstall Melodyne after checking the VST3 path that is in the command center.
However, it seems that enough people are having this issue that something is going on with the platinum install. The cakewalk answers in the forum seem to try to point to a bad melodyne install but from what I read people already had it installed and working fine but installing Platinum makes it not work.