Waves Vocal rider Installation - HELP PLEASE!

Hi
Quick background - purchased Waves Gold and GTR many many years ago - fell out with Waves due to their dubious sales / marketing tactics, so NEVER upgraded or purchased any other Waves products.
I managed to reinstall all my Waves products on my new Windows 7 64 bit machine running Sonar x1 Expanded with no issues and all working fine.
Now the problem - I just purchased Vocal rider - stupidly I did not fully check the Waves site first and only noticed this potential problem when registering / attempting download.
My Waves Shells are 5's and it says on the Waves 8 download that it:-
"V3, V4, V5, and V8 cannot run concurrently on the same computer. V8 installations will completely uninstall previously installed Waves versions V3, V4, and V5 of ALL products."

Now obviously I do not have Vocal rider installed on my machine, so I assume during the Waves 8 installation, all I select is Vocal Rider - I am then hoping that all the Waves 8 installer will do is install this ONE product and all will be well.

But my past experience of Waves somewhat dubious approach makes me question if that is all that will happen! Last thing I want is for Waves 8 to delete all my existing Waves stuff in an attempt to make me spend yet more money with them and upgrade to the latest versions!
With Waves, once (or more!) bitten twice shy in my book!


Anyone know if I will be OK to just try and install Vocal rider - thanks
Nigel

Mike
I was hoping to do this without contacting the ever so helpful people at Waves - I really did fall out with them in a big way - After having spent a not inconsiderable sum of money on their top of the range processor package I then purchased the full (and again expensive) GTR package with hardware input module solely for use with Sonar - when Waves launched GTR it DIDN'T work in Sonar although it said it did on the Waves website - however when I pointed this out to them they quickly changed their website then pretended they have never claimed Sonar comparability - then to make it worse they wanted me to sign up and pay for the WUP to give me a version that would work as advertised! Unbelievable.

Anyway through being a bit of a PITA they eventually did upgrade me FOC.

This was quite some years ago and whilst the Company's ethics and business practices seem extremely dubious, I've always liked some of the products - still think GTR is one of if not my favourite Guitar processors for instance.

So I thought I'd give them another try - perhaps I should have thought more carefully - what's that saying - Leopards don't change their spots!!!

I'll let you know how I get on
Nigel

A. Do a backup of your existing waves directories before installing V8 plugs.

2. I should think that if you install to another location you would just have another location to point to in your DAW for plugins.
iii. If #2 does delete, recover form step 1 (errrrm A.)

Cool. You outsmarted the varmints.

Sweet. Thanks for the info Bapu.
And yeah I hate Waves too but I love their plug-ins. And as far as NI goes, the only plug I use from them is Guitar Rig that comes with Sonar. And I think I've only used it once or twice.
I own Massive and one other synth (can't remember the name) but haven't installed either one since Sonar 7. something.

Mike