Cannot open catalog in Lightroom

I just subscribed to Creative Cloud and downloaded Lightroom (as a replacement for Aperture). I started with the video tutorial "How to manage your digital photos". However, I cannot get Lightroom to work at all. It downloaded OK but when I opened it for the first time, I didn't get any popup asking me what country I was in. Instead, I received an error message:
An error occurred when attempting to change modules.
I can see that it has created a Lightroom folder in Pictures with two files - Lightroom 5 Previews and Lightroom 5.lrcat. I thought these may be corrupt for some reason so I created a new catalog Lightroom 5. Again same error message but I can see a folder 'Lightroom 5' containing two files Lightroom 5 Previews and Lightroom 5.lrcat.
I tried opening Preferences to see if there was anything in there that may help fix the issue but Preferences won't open.
I'm running a Mac with OSX Yosemite and 8GBs of memory ...

Hi Geoff,
I looked again, but do not see:
HD/Users/[your username]/Library/Preferences/
Like I mentioned, I have:
HD/Users/[your username]/Shared/Library/Preferences/
and
But if I try to create a folder called Library in the path mentioned in Victoria's article, it tells me that it already exists...
Also, I've searched for the file com.adobe.Lightroom3.plist and cannot find it.  I did find the file com.adobe.Lightroom5.plist, removed it but still get the same error...
Thanks for the support,
HPH

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