I got a follow-up call from TT management support yesterday. The representative was most knowledgable and helpful.
Yes, this is a display issue. We were able to troubleshoot and confirm a workaround. I think confirming this was actually helpful for both of us, as hopefully it can help others resolve the issue and the development team make the required changes.
Ironically when I later loaded another version of TT I needed, the Premier version, it had the same Activation problem. But now knowing the workaround I quickly enabled Activation and was up and running.
Everything is working fine now on both versions.
