Cubase 6 headaches

Last night, I spent the entire evening trying to figure out what was wrong with my Cubase 6 MIDI sound generator HALion Sonic SE. I kept getting messages that the plugin was not loaded and cubase kept crashing due to cascading error messages. What a nightmare!  I'll cut to the chase; here's what I discovered:

• Cubase 6 comes with a  "Trial Version" of HALion Sonic (among others), VST plug-in, and the program defaults to this when adding instrument tracks.
• Once the trial period runs out the program starts giving you errors that HS is not licensed.
• Then if you try to load HALion Sonic SE (which comes with Cubase 6) you start getting tons of errors telling you presets are missing.
• THE FIX: I had to uninstall HALion Sonic, then reinstall HALion Sonic SE, then when the preset errors come up, click the remove button about a hundred times and VOILA... HALion Sonic SE now loads and works perfectly!

Thanks Steinberg for this fricken VST nightmare! I suspect this issue is engineered failure to make users throw up their hands and shell out the $250 bucks for HALion Sonic!