I am the administrator but for kicks I reinstalled by right clicking and run as administrator with Mach4 and darwin.  That seems to have helped.  I still don't have access to the Darwin control and statistics screen though.  It does appear to have installed the plugin though.  Certainly getting closer...in my mind anyway.

you may need to go into the driver directory and remove the Darwin driver and re install

I just don't know what else to do.

I only have a PCI parallel port card...what settings and what port should I use?

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did you choose parallel port in the M4 motion device on the setup tab?

My motors required them to be enabled.  I set outputs in Darwin and outputs in M4, then all worked fine in both.