Well pdudb kind of hijacked the thread... But, gentlemen thanks for the replies. I fixed it, and here is what I did.
1st, I have AH on a different partition, and for some reason files and folders and that partition were marked as read only. So I changed the attritbutes, and it started working.
Still had problem with it holding the scale, so I deleted the stick.cfg file, that was in the settings folder, and the sidewinderp2.jsm file. Now everything seems to work.
I went back to the settings folder, and did not see stick.cfg, so I wonder if that was causing a problem. That file was a saved scale I got from AKAK, from AH1. Perhaps a combination of things.