Ok. as a guess, I used CCleaner to clean the various caches and registry keys that are broke.
Then restarted computer and selected turbotax. It then displayed the license for turbotax stored by the online turbotax store. Then it displays a blue circle spinning vs. the spiralling blue dots. It then activated turbotax and now runs.
On the first go around above, it didn't display the license retrieved from turbotax to display it for selection before going to the activation screen causing the spiraling blue dots.
So now two copies of turbotax of the five allowed are installed.
