thanks for the answer guys. It was frustrating me.

P.S. back up your registry! I backed up by setting a restore point but I also use a freeware registry backup, there are several, the one I like is Erunt.

I posted your solution as well as a question to AOL as to why it was forcing a C: install on the AOL forums. Thank you again Cronus for the idea and TedT for the step by step directions and for being the guinea pig!