Followup - more information.
After doing a ton of more testing, reinstalling and research - I finally tracked down a post that seems to indicate that the problem is between the V-COM SystemSuite Antivirus software and Apache.
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Reports a similar problem from someone trying to use PostNuke.
"Seems there is a mxavlsp.dll file that apache and systemsuite 6 are conflicted over. O
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