I finally was able to resolve this issue.
I like to tweak things, including Designer Pro 20 perpetual. Looks like I went a bit too far with that tweaking.
What I did was a complete uninstall of DP20 - including xara registry tree purge.
I then reinstalled DP20 and then exported the "XtremeProPerpetual x64" registry branch
Some of those tweaks I wanted to keep, so, before uninstalling DP20 I exporting the "XtremeProPerpetual x64" key from the registry. I also exported specific parts of the Xara configuration as well (things like selection blobs, recent files, backup locations, toolbar configuration etc)
I then imported the specific parts of the Xara configuration reg files to get back my tweaks I wanted
After doing this, the “Check for updates” no longer gave me the script error. I just got the Welcome Screen.
I was willing to tolerate the script error, as I did not effect any other part of the program. Or so I thought.
I discovered that the “Magic Erase” tool was not working properly. I selected the “Magic Erase” tool, like I have done before. The marching ants appeared. However, when I released the mouse button, the selected marquee just disappeared. Well that was not supposed to happen!
That's what got me to do uninstall, purge and re-uninstall DP20, hoping that this “Magic Erase” tool would resolve. Thankfully it did (which as may main reason)
The fixing of the script errors at update check was a bit of serendipity.
So there you have it. (Yes, I over-tweaked)
Fingers crossed problem solved.
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