This is a follow up to my post above in case someone else runs across this issue. It would appear that when the machine was 'doing nothing' it was actually waiting on some kind of prompt. I rebooted it, and when nothing was happening I hit enter, which resulted in more hd activity. Hitting enter two...

I just downloaded the latest version and the screens I see match what I am seeing except for the screen that asks me where the files are. Everything else is the same, but when I go to restart the machine the grub menu comes up, the hard drive spins for a while but absolutely nothing beyond that. I w...