I finally solved the license problem by re-loading the elicense software from scratch. ALL OF THE OTHER INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN FROM THE elicense and SB sites were useless! N8.2 is now working as had been advertised by other users. This is better. N7 is also back to normal. You were correct about the Edit mode. The project window is back to normal. Thanks a lot. Sorry for the rant. But this kind of stuff is just infuriating, ya know?