BeMicro FPGA-based MCU Evaluation Board

After reading 6 pages of what came up I tried many things. Disable firewall, run as Admin, and I have seen many with bad driver installs. Mine still refuses to work. I find it positively astounding that so many people have issues with windows 7 and there seemingly is nothing that helps me. Was this just a really stupid purchase? Should I have looked for a different manufacturer or what? There should be no reason when following the directions repeatedly to have this level of failure. FPGA's are new to me. Computers and their repair and the like are not. I have setup samba in less time then this. Rebuilt computers after OS failures in less time. This is or should be a fairly simple software install. I have one Error. can't connect to altera. I told it to check lisence every time I start Quartus II. Since it has locally a lisence for the board that seems to be a waste of money, and a web lisence for Quartus I am at a loss. My lisences are not expired. My drivers are installed. Yet my development environment refuses to work properly. What is required to actually program the board? As I see it lisence, drivers, compiled project and a working computer.