I actually discovered that the issue with loading my Cubase 6.5 upgrade was completely unrelated to my OS which is Windows XP. I had a NET error, and downloaded an update for my system…once I tried this, it ran the setup flawlessly. All is well now. Just a heads up if anyone else has an issue with this update from Cubase 6 to Cubase 6.5 using Windows XP 32 bit. (by now mostly everyone has Windows 7 or MAC though, and 64 bit…im in the dark ages ha…good things people. 