CS5 freezes on startup (Windows 7)

I'm considering making the jump from Vegas Pro 8 to Premiere. Downloaded the 30-day Trial for PPro CS5; it installs fine, but freezes on startup.
I've read everything I can find on this, tried all the ideas I've come across, but still no go; so I'm looking for more ideas!
THE FAILURE:
On launch, PPro displays the splash screen, whizzes through all the plugin loading, draws the main UI background, draws the main menubar text... then freezes up. It never crashes, just stops drawing and stops responding to Windows. Same results from both 5.0 and 5.0.2.
THE HARDWARE:
Asus Sabretooth x58 motherboard
Core i7 960 CPU (quad-core @ 3.2GHz)
12GB RAM
Dual-SSD main drive (RAID-0 on SATA-6Gb/s)
GeForce 9800GTX video card
Onboard Realtek HD Audio
THE SOFTWARE:
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (with all system software updates)
Nvidia drivers 260.99 (latest, 10/16/2010)
OS was installed about a month ago, so it's pretty clean.
WHAT I'VE TRIED:
Ran DXDIAG - No errors found.
Deleted PPro Prefs
Checked PPro logs - no errors found
Installed latest Nvidia drivers
Removed Nvidia drivers (back to Win 7 default drivers)
Ran as admin
Removed fonts
No Quicktime Installed
Installed Quicktime (7.6.8)
Disabled second monitor
Disabled antivirus/firewall (Symantec Endpoint Protection)
Installed Combined Community Codec Pack
Removed CCCP
Removed virtual DVD software (Virtual CloneDrive)
Removed DVD burning software (ImgBurn)
What else am I missing? It's probably something obvious and dumb and I'm just looking around it. Any other info that would help? I could post my DXDIAG results, but I didn't see anything relevant in there.
Thanks a ton for any help!

Installing Bulk Codec Packs has been an issue of many systems around here.
Do a little search in this Forum  eg "CODEC PACKS"
Can you try uninstalling it and see how things work for you.  Common advice and wisdom seems to be that it is difficult to do and often requires a reinstall of the O.S as well as the Adobe software.  Hope thats not so for you.
http://forums.adobe.com/search.jspa?resultTypes=DOCUMENT&resultTypes=MESSAGE&resultTypes=C OMMUNITY&resultTypes=TASK&resultTypes=PROJECT&resultTypes=SOCIAL_GROUP&resultTypes=COMMENT &peopleEnabled=true&q=codec+packs

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