well I went from bad to worse....
installed the latest UAD version 9.1 and after a while the console would finally see the plugs, but then the uad plugs started losing authorization .
I stayed up till 2AM rolling back, downloading, trying this that and the other.
I could load one uad plug fine the second I added A new plug the first one lost authorization.. I fought this for a while, when suddenly I tried looking at the control panel and saw my firewire utilization was at 100% with no plugs installed.
I am running a solo PCI card, a Satellite Quad FW and an Apollo USB twin, bur for some reason the fw issue was hosing up everything. I had been rebooting my PC several times but the UAD stuff stays on till I hit the master power switch so none of the interfaces ever got rebooted. I reset the Satellite and then at 2AM I tried loading a few UAD plugs and they stayed authorized, and the console also loaded a uad plug.
This evening I will try to clean up my mess and continue testing with a fresh brain.
AND try to figure out why it didnt work, but I think it was partially because I move my UAD folder to a different location, and last night I let the install take the default the Steinberg folder.
It is a PITA for the Platinum rescans cause it takes FOREVER for Plat to scan the vsts...