I went to Live chat and got my answer on the Laptop, Desktop question. I was informed that I am OK with both. Looking fwd to upgrades now...
Not feeling so dumb anymore... haven't had any of the issues folks have had so far, but whenever I install or upgrade I always repair Disk Permissions, whether it needs it or not. Have had great luck doing this. I first installed NRMac yesterday and it immediately went to the latest version before I could complete my install. If NR continues like this, I will be very happy to wait for V2.0.
Baking in Tucson again...