More of the same - Vista + DO9 issues

Sounds like something is quite messed up as you shouldn't get a UAC prompt from running Opus. The "run as administrator" box should not be ticked. That would explain 3 4 and 5.

My guess is there are still some things left over from forcing Opus 8 to run on Vista.

Config import should be fixed by the second Opus 9 release but if you still have problems it might be worth sending your config to GPSoft. There's no point doing that until you've got a clean install working properly though as right now most problems are likely due to the program not being installed properly.

If you still see an Opus 8 icon, did you reboot after installing Opus 9? If you did reboot then I would do a clean uninstall, manually verify the Program Files\GPSoftware directory is empty and the HKLM\Software\GPSoftware and HKCU\Software\GPSoftware registry keys are also empty, then reboot and install Opus 9 fresh. See if everything works and if it's not looking good, try importing your Opus 8 config.