Vista - AutoCAD2006 and Vista Beta 2

AutoCAD installs fine, but then will not authorize its license
by connecting to the Autodesk license server. Same machine
running XP does that just fine. Also, could not connect to our
print server, until I installed a component of MS Office 2007
beta ... the SQL server. Then I could see shares all over
our network. Apparently certain needed ports are blocked
in Vista Beta, and weird security settings are causing
problems in installs. As a matter of fact, I could not even
install the Office beta as long as IE7 was running at all.
I had to download the Office Apps ... shut IE7 down .. and
then I could manually install Office and register it on the
web. IE7 security is causing trouble somehow. There needs
to be a way to totally disable all security settings until the
OS and all apps are installed and properly configured.

johns