[Dave Scheck]

Could FIRST have made this process any more confusing? Once you know what to do it's easy, but getting there should have been made A LOT more straightforward.

When you insert the DVD, the setup.exe runs to open the install wizard. You need this eventually, but if you look at the contents of the DVD there's a FIRST_Robotics_Competition_2011_README_FIRST.pdf. Read that first (as the filename suggests). Why the setup doesn't direct you to that document is beyond me, but knowing that it's there now sure does make things easier.

I installed from the disk last night without knowing about the PDF and was still getting the license errors. After finding the PDF this morning, I ran through the install again, following the proper activation step this time. When it was time for the installer to actually install, it said that it was already installed and that there was nothing to do. On a hunch, I opened Workbench and the licensing issue was resolved.