Well that was easy fix. Just think tomorrow morning when I booted my computer up, I would have found that the magic Steel beast gnome had worked his magic and solve the problem. Thanks.
I have got a new computer and had to move to VISTA. I have updated codemeter to version 3.2 and did the firmware update. When I try to start SPPro I get SBProPEcm.exe: Start Error CodeMeter API Error occured (Error 23)! Thanks for any assistance.