Corel Draw X4: Sub-menu disable..

The original poster identified some submenus that did not open. 

In my case, absolutely none of the submenus in CorelDraw or PhotoPaint will open.  I have gone through all of them in both programs. All other menu choices, including dialog box menu entries, such as open, work fine.

Short cut keys all seem to work.

Is my problem, no submenus opening, also the symptom of  a expired trial version?

I have installed a CorelDraw 10 upgrade version under Win 98.  I upgraded from CorelDraw 9 and Photopaint 8.  The Corel specs say this should work.

The install step completed normally.  The install program looked for an qualifying upgrade product and then asked for my serial number, which I entered from my Product Authenticity Card.

The help menu does not include a registration option to enter a trial version upgrade code.

I don't recall ever installing a trial version of any Corel product.

When I try to use the program, I can't.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled some 8 times now.  I have tried running setup from a hard disk and the CD.  I have tried just installing one program.  I tried uninstalling everything that the Corel Installer would uninstall. I installed both service packs.  Nothing makes any difference.

I have noticed that all three workspaces set up by the install had far fewer files than in PP 8 and CD 9.  The workspaces set up did not include a pntmenu.cfg or cdrmenu.cfg among many other files.  I tried copying over the files from my old PP and CorelDraw workspaces.  That didn't work.  Version 10 created new files in these directories.

Any idea of how I can get this to work?  Without the menus, the program is useless.