I ran the product installation process. On the last few installs I've followed, carefully, the install instructions as laid out on
http://www.eirma.org/devel/LDM/index.html?title.html&0. I also have ran the local_links_kill.php to delete the db tables and then did several complete reinstalls.
Your suggestion of completly removing the files, downloading a new zip and reinstalling from scratch worked. Thanks for your time and effort with this issue.