Lots of help, thanks.
yes that was sarcasm.
No problem though, I did manage to find what the problem was/is so perhaps when the next person Posts here with this problem they can be pointed to this post and/or information and fix it and be able to enjoy it.
That said, to fix the Range Error, it seemingly requires a reboot. That's the easiest way to fix it, since the real problem is that the installer never fully exits and apparenly this causes SE4 to be less than thrilled at any ship moving. So, either reboot, or hit control-alt-delete and kill off the installer or for those of you in Windows 2000 like myself, use task manager (which will be a button when you hit control-alt-delete). Once in task manager, kill the process for the installer and close task manager.
This has worked for me and I had a friend try it himself, and it solved his problem also.
- b00tch