It just keeps getting better.... Finally grabbed my WIFE's laptop to try the last remaining PC in the house... This time at LEAST it got to the point of saying "Create installation media for another PC".......
Then it churns for a long time, downloading. Gets to 100% then says something like "creating media". I saw it get to at least 22%, then it PUKES ALL OVER IT'S FEET... This time it's an error "Something happened 0x80070070 - 0xc19001DF"...
Hoping SOMEBODY has a clue what needs to be done to get this thing to work..