OK, it seems all issues have resolved themselves over the weekend without my doing anything...

1) I was able to successfully run a test today, meaning it was able to access the data that I had unzipped into the History folder last week. Last week it reported that there was no data even though there was...

2) last week when I downloaded the data there was no 2007 data for NAS100, SPX500, GER30, US30, USOil, HAUUSD, XAGUSD and no 2009 USOil included in the download. When I downloaded it again today, there was...

3) It stopped freezing and crashing when I tried to run a test...

Not sure how these problems got resolved, but I'm glad they did...