Appogee, thanks for following up, the bottom right hand corner of the screen displays Version 1.3.0014 when I start the game.
Steam does a fairly good job at automatically updating any released patches, and I purchased the game a good amount of time from when that patch was released, so this was a fresh install with the latest patch onto a win7 platform
I’ve saved a good many screen captures of the different error messages…but this isn’t the forum location to post that type of info